Chatur Lal was a pioneer who introduced the tabla to western audiences as he travelled the world playing with other Indian ...

Composer and tabla player Zakir Hussain ... His teenage years saw him perform with renowned artists like Ravi Shankar and Ali Akbar Khan, The New York Times reported. Though his practice was ...

Zakir Hussain spoke of his father holding him in his arms for the first time. Alla Rakha was an accomplished tabla player and a frequent accompanist of iconic sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar.

It is a privilege to have been asked to write an introduction to a book that celebrates the life and work of Pandit Kumar ...

from tabla player and researcher Aneesh Pradhan and Ravi Shankar’s biographer Oliver Craske, to Annapurna Devi’s loyal disciples Hariprasad Chaurasia, Basant Kabra and Hemant Desai. We learn that on ...

New Delhi, Dec 16 (PTI) Zakir Hussain, the exuberant maestro of tabla who once called the instrument ... India's performers of the time, including Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan and Shivkumar ...