Zakir Hussain is one of the world's most in demand percussionists. From his collaborations with jazz greats Charles Lloyd and Herbie Hancock to his explorations with the Grateful Dead, Mickey Hart, ...

As a child, Zakir Hussain performed regularly for his bread and butter, and sometimes a bottle of Coke. More than half a century later the award-winning musician and his tabla, an Indian hand drum, ...

East, West Meld In A Much-Awaited Concerto By Zakir Hussain. Will His Tabla Fusion Rock? East, West Meld In A Much-Awaited Concerto By Zakir Hussain. Will His Tabla Fusion Rock? While amiability on ...

Bobby Singh’s speech shifts fluently between a perfectly polite Punjabi and a thick Australian English. This smooth shuttling also reflects in Singh’s work as a musician. HT Image He has been ...

The PNCA auditorium was packed as a New York-based jazz group performed with Pakistani musicians to promote cultural exchanges between Pakistan and the United States. Ari Roland, Zaid Nasser, Chris ...

Experiencing a guitar-tabla fusion concert is a bit like immersing in a living lab of East-West experimentation. French guitarist Geoffrey Grenier, or just Geoff as he is familiar in the circuit, was ...

New Delhi, Dec 22: Since the 1970s, he has collaborated with musicians as diverse as John McLaughlin, Mickey Hart and Bill Laswell on a plethora of genre-defying fusion projects. Yet, tabla maestro ...

Born to tabla maestro, Alla Rakha and Bavi Begum in Mahim, Mumbai on March 9, 1951, Zakir Hussain had an inclination for playing the tabla at a very young age. Hussain learned to play the mridang (a ...

Tomorrow, prepare yourself to witness musical magic as Indian tabla maestro Aneesh Pradhan joins hands with Swiss music legends Pierre Favre and Lucas Niggli. The event, titled Poetry in Percussion, ...

Reunion Island band Dogo Fara’s recent concert in the city was an embodiment of the French island’s Maloya musical tradition of blending protest poetry, jazz, slam, reggae and dance. The back-to-back ...

Hyderabad didn’t ease into the evening — it erupted. The first thump on the tabla and dhol hit like a heartbeat, announcing not just a show but a shift in the city’s rhythm. And at the centre of it ...