Kanada Kev Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 (edited) A drummer buddy of mine just told me that Prince is going to play as a 3-piece band. FUCK, that would be sick. A quick search found no news, but i gotta finish my work, so take it for what it's worthHe told me that this dude is going to be the drummer: Edited September 15, 2010 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 15, 2010 Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 where'd your drummer buddy read this? I would like to see this happen. On prince.org I've read that he has been playing with Prince along with Tal Wilkenfeld (bass player for jeff beck) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted September 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 15, 2010 fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck Tal ROCKS!! and with that drummer! I gotta gets me tix to this if it comes 'round here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Funny, when I saw Jeff Back back in Feb., his bassist was Rhonda Smith, who used to play for Prince. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Tal was playing with Herbie hancock this summer at Ottawa Jazzfest. What a talent.If she plays in a trio with Prince I'll go. Maybe even far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Honest question here: Is Tal really that good or are we just fawning over her as a young female bassist?I saw her perform a few times and while she was certainly great- I had to wonder if the accolades were derived solely from her musical ability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 you just said she was certainly great though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 I had to wonder if the accolades were derived solely from her musical ability. This statement could likely be applied to a lot of musicians. I thought she was bad-ass in the live Beck DVD I had borrowed from a buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted September 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 (edited) Tal is really good. I was hooked when i first heard her perform "'Cause We've Ended as Lovers" with Jeff Beck at the Crossroads Festival from a few years ago (the DVD, wasn't there ) I would post a Youtube vid of it, but they seem to have taken it down. Or at least the link doesn't work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJ9BA05GU0 Edited September 16, 2010 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 She's that good. I doubt Herbie Hancock (and maybe to a lesser extent Jeff Beck) would hire a musican based on anything other than musicality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chameleon Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 That would be awesome Prince raw and minus all the pomp and circumstance. Love to see him play guitar again.Tal Wikenfield is like 17 and an Austrailian prodigy. Heard her debut solo record a while back and was shocked at her ability at such a young age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted September 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Tal started playing bass at age 17 after playing guitar for 3 years. She's only 23 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 Honest question here: Is Tal really that good or are we just fawning over her as a young female bassist?I saw her perform a few times and while she was certainly great- I had to wonder if the accolades were derived solely from her musical ability.If you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock, prince, or even jeff beck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradm Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 If you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock, prince, or even jeff beck. No, he'd be playing with Trey. Aloha, Brad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phorbesie Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 If you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock, prince, or even jeff beck.i don't quite get what you're saying here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 16, 2010 Report Share Posted September 16, 2010 If you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock' date=' prince, or even jeff beck.[/quote']i don't quite get what you're saying here.I'm saying that part of what Sean is questioning is true. If you put 2 equal players together, one being a young lady who's only been playing for a few years with tons of talent and deep deep funk, beside a guy who's been playing for 33 years and managed to acquire the same skill, then you had to choose which one would be more interesting to play with.... the 50 year old fat dude that I made up would be on the B team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chameleon Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Not at all dude she is actually a prodigy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 I think booche is right with regards to Prince - no way he auditions someone without seeing an 8x10 glossy first. As for JB and HH, it wouldn't matter what they looked like, any bass player that plays like Tal would be welcome. Even if they looked like Don Knotts.The ability of the lady is just not up for debate, really. She's astounding and may just become one of the biggies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 mind you if one had a guy that could play bass at all and he looked like this... one would likely hire him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Where the hell did you find a pic of Don Knotts where he looks like a normal human being*?!?*ignoring the collar for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted September 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Krantz and Carlock with Tal on this release! Killer shit: http://bit.ly/aeZ01w Some artists emerge slowly, taking years to find their way to public attention; others leap seemingly instantaneously into the public eye. Australian-born, US-based bassist Tal Wilkenfeld has gone from sitting in with The Allman Brothers Band in 2006 to working with pianist Chick Corea and Jeff Beck, heard recently on the guitarist’s Performing This Week…Live at Ronnie Scott’s (Eagle Records, 2008). What’s not apparent on Beck’s CD—but can be seen on the DVD version of the same release—is his almost constant state of disbelief when watching the diminutive, early-twenties Wilkenfeld. There are plenty of bassists with staggering technique and chops, but few can make the instrument truly sing, as Wilkenfeld does on Beck’s CD during an all-stops-out solo on Stevie Wonder’s “‘Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers.†Wilkenfeld possesses all the requisite chops and uses them to terrific advantage on Transformation, her 2007 debut as a leader, released prior to hitting the road with Beck. As with Beck, she proves herself a potent groove-meister, in this case working hand-in-glove with Keith Carlock, best-known as Steely Dan’s recent drummer of choice, both on the road and on its last release, Everything Must Go (Reprise, 2003). The grooves are rich and visceral on this set of Wilkenfeld originals (one, the beautifully balladic “Truth Be Told,†co-written with Transformation’s keyboardist, the ever-tasteful Geoffrey Keezer), with solo space aplenty and a less restrictive format allowing Carlock greater freedom than in The Dan’s more defined context. Possessing a deep lyricism rare enough in electric bassists, but especially in this largely fusion-esque context, Wilkenfeld’s a fingers-only player who largely eschews string-popping and slapping techniques, though she heads for that territory briefly on “Serendipity,†managing to be be both rhythm anchor and lead voice. Largely, however, she aims for a warm tone and a way of sliding in and around her notes reminiscent of ex-Weather Report bassist Alphonso Johnson and King Crimson/Peter Gabriel alum Tony Levin. Wilkenfeld’s writing is filled with knotty, often high velocity lines either in counterpoint or concert with guitarist Wayne Krantz, who delivers some of his most focused, funkified and harmonically outré playing in years; a strong foil for Wilkenfeld and a player who’s always deserved more cred than he’s been afforded. Saxophonist Seamus Blake, normally heard on more modern mainstream settings, combines spare soulfulness with bop-inflected lines on the medium tempo “Table for One,†while Keezer delivers one of his best solos of the set on the fierier “Oatmeal Bandage,†while also features a rare solo spot for Carlock that suggests he, like Krantz, deserves considerably more attention. But even when the music is filled with complex, intertwining lines that prove the mettle of everyone involved even as they avoid any trappings of excess, it still grooves in a booty-shaking way—even when Wilkenfeld challenges with shifting meters. For those who’ve discovered Wilkenfeld via her work with Jeff Beck, the thoroughly exciting Transformation provides an even broader window into this remarkable bassist with a promising future. – http://www.allaboutjazz.com Tal Wilkenfeld: bass Wayne Krantz: guitar Geoffrey Keezer: piano, keyboards Keith Carlock: drums Seamus Blake: tenor saxophone mp3@320CBR Tracklist: 1. BC 2. Cosmic Joke 3. Truth Be Told 4. Serendipity 5. The River of Life 6. Oatmeal Bandage 7. Table for One http://bit.ly/aeZ01w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zero Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 if you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock, prince, or even jeff beckNo, the 50 yr. old fat dude's tit doesn't hang neatly over the body of the bass in quite the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted September 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 if you were watching a 50 year old fat dude play like that I doubt he'd be playing with herbie hancock, prince, or even jeff beck No, the 50 yr. old fat dude's tit doesn't hang neatly over the body of the bass in quite the same way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velvet Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Another brilliant musical insight there Luke.Jesus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Where the hell did you find a pic of Don Knotts where he looks like a normal human being*?!?*ignoring the collar for now.there's a photoshop opportunity in there somewhere.*searching for pictures of velvet's head* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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