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

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

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

A child prodigy, he collaborated with Indian classical icons like Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan ... one of history's most ...

He performed and recorded extensively with leading Indian musicians, including Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan and Shivkumar Sharma. His main instrument was the tabla, the tuned drums that accompany ...

Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain ... sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar, sarod player Amjad Ali khan and sarangi player Sultan Khan, he was also a prominent figure in world music.

Zakir Hussain, the Grammy-winning Indian musician regarded as one of the world’s greatest tabla players ... a close collaborator with Ravi Shankar. Hussain won the Padma Vibhushan, India ...

Ravi Shankar, who introduced Indian music to much ... rock and Indian music that took place between guitarist McLaughlin, tabla player Hussain, violinist L. Shankar and ghatam (clay pot ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age ... with legendary Indian sitarist and composer Pandit Ravi Shankar. By 19, he was playing more than 150 concerts ...

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 ...

Lauded as “the greatest tabla player of his generation,” the statement ... who served as sitar master Ravi Shankar’s accompanist during the peak of Shankar's career, according to the Allarak ...