Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), popularly known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player who specialized in Hindustani classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of ...
The music of India is an enigma to many Western listeners. To some, it recalls the Beatles and Ravi Shankar; to others it is pleasant, atmospheric, but ultimately incomprehensible; and to still others ...
In 1973 George Harrison signed Ravi Shankar to his Dark Horse Records label. The first joint recording project between George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, Shankar Family & Friends brought together ...
A real treat for fans of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, this is not only a live recording of a rare morning concert, but also an "at home" performance Shankar did for some special friends at his ...
The World Mosaic concert at the Skirball Cultural Center Thursday night had a great deal going for it up front. The third event in the center’s outstanding series of world music programs, the evening ...
The title of Oliver Craske's fascinating and exhaustively researched biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the greatest artists of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, is something of a ...
“On ‘Hollywood Dhun,’ you hear Raviji play a series of Bangledeshi folk melodies with great heart and soul, disturbed as he was about the situation in Bangledesh at the time (something he mentions in ...
Alla Rakha popularised the art of tabla, playing across the globe, elevating the status and respect of this instrument. "Abbaji" (as he was affectionately known by his disciples) also bridged the gap ...
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