The popularity of the tabla can be traced to the reign of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah Rangeela, but there are various ...

The world of music has lost a luminary, a tabla virtuoso whose contributions to both North Indian classical music and global ...

Hussain, who died Dec. 15 at age 73 in San Francisco of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, was regarded as the ...

India, a country of 140 crore people doesn’t have a dearth of talent. Yet, in this massive sea of humanity and diversity that ...

Ratan Tata, Liam Payne, Alexei Navalny, OJ Simpson, Maggie Smith, Rohit Bal, Quincy Jones, Zakir Hussain, and Manmohan Singh.

Going beyond the adulation that Zakir Hussain will continue to receive from his seniors, contemporaries, juniors and fans, ...

Hussain is one of the most celebrated performers in the history of Indian classical music. He also found success in Western ...

what Ravi Shankar called ‘the’ tabla. The drum with a larger playing surface, the bass, is simply the baya’n, or the left one. There are left-handed players, of course, who switch the drums ...

A previous version of this list incorrectly printed Joe Bonsall's name as Jon Bansall, Dickey Betts' first name as Dicky and ...

Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame beyond his Indian homeland; ...

but when Ravi Shankar died in 2012 he assumed the great sitar player’s role as chief global ambassador for Indian classical music. The tabla consists of two drums played with the fingers and ...