Who’s Around?
A new album of original music for a sixteen-piece ensemble. Out now on Anzic Records.
GRAMMY®-nominatedMulti-instrumentalistComposerProducer
Photo: Liri Agami
Carnegie Hall · Hollywood Bowl · Newport Jazz Festival · Lincoln Center · Blue Note New York · SFJAZZ · Monterey Jazz Festival · Umbria Jazz
Anat Cohen · Mulatu Astatke · Omer Avital · Shai Maestro · Paquito D’Rivera · Avishai Cohen · Ravi Coltrane















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Virtuoso guitarist/bassist… a songlike composing skill on the captivating Who’s Around?
Israeli, Brazilian, Greek, Georgian, Spanish and Puerto Rican sounds all find a place on guitarist/bassist Tal Mashiach’s second album… fun and intoxicating.
A grandly conceived, virtuosically played journey through time and the world.
Melody after melody after melody. This one might become a summertime staple.
A bright and bouncing samba with a melody played just a fraction behind the beat to give it momentum.
A virtuoso, seeking and finding soul who has created a musical universe across a great many things.
Even more amazing was Tal’s bass solo… the contrast was stunning, eliciting a roar of applause.
Tal Mashiach’s warm, round bass is the quiet anchor for everything.
A delicate, impeccably fingered solo by Mashiach that showed he had caught the evening’s inspiration.
Relatively few contemporary musicians have made [nylon-string guitar] their primary voice. Rarer still is a player equally at home on the upright bass. Brooklyn-based Tal Mashiach is one of them.
Acoustic bassist Tal Mashiach took flight with rhythmic fluency.
A new album of original music for a sixteen-piece ensemble. Out now on Anzic Records.
Tal’s debut album as a leader, built around the nylon-string guitar. Out on Anzic Records.
Photo: Gaya Photos
With Gadi Lehavi and Ofri Nehemya. Two albums and sold-out tours in Japan and Europe.
A Brooklyn street band of horns, harmonica and groove. Debut album Sababito.
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Tal Mashiach is a GRAMMY®-nominated multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer based in Brooklyn, New York, on double bass and seven-string guitar.
For more than a decade he has played with Anat Cohen’s Quartetinho and Tentet, including the GRAMMY®-nominated Triple Helix. He has toured with Mulatu Astatke and Omer Avital, and co-leads the GTO Trio.
His new album Who’s Around? (Anzic Records, 2026) brings together sixteen musicians, with Anat Cohen, Gadi Lehavi and Ofri Nehemya. It was a DownBeat Editors’ Pick, hailed as “masterfully executed world fusion.”
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