Tabla player Salar Nader performs with the Third Coast Percussion ensemble at the Nimoy Theatre in Westwood on Saturday, Dec. 6, 2025. The group played several pieces, including Zakir Hussain's ...

Zakir Hussain performs at the Further Festival, July 1996, in Veneta, Oregon - Redferns/Getty Images Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame ...

Handmade in Dijkot, tablas carry centuries of musical tradition, with each stroke reflecting skill and enduring legacy ...

Ustaad Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players and pioneer of Indian classical music, died last month. He was a revolutionary in music that transcended borders, playing with jazz, ...

Bhubaneswar: The concluding evening at the Rajarani temple witnessed scintillating performance on Odissi Instrumental (Mardala & Tabla Jugalbandi) by Guru Biswaranjan Nanda and Group with ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began when Hussain ...

His accomplishments extend far beyond being one of the most renowned tabla players of his generation. With over 200 album covers and an array of melodious compositions in over 58 films, Bickram ...