Indian tabla drums have delicate clay discs at the centers of their membranes that can easily be destroyed under the wrong hands. The drums — which originated in the sixth century B.C. — echo and ...

George Harrison of The Beatles was a fan and collaborator of Indian tabla drum marvel Zakir Hussain, who performs Saturday at San Diego’s Balboa Theater. So are guitar legend John McLaughlin, Grateful ...

Third Coast Percussion gives the L.A. premiere of Zakir Hussain's last major work, "Murmurs of Time," at the Nimoy, a final ode to the tabla great's vast range ...

Zakir Hussain was credited with bringing India's tabla drum into the mainstream - Copyright AFP Manjunath Kiran Zakir Hussain was credited with bringing India's tabla ...

At dusk, the narrow lanes of Dal Mandi in downtown Varanasi spring to life. Rows of shops in the northern Indian city offer colourful wares, from the famous Banarasi silk saris, costume jewellery and ...

The worlds of two instrumentalists coinciding through a mentor-protegee initiative, Zakir Hussain on teaching drummer Marcus Gilmore the art of living, through notes As we await their arrival at a ...

UPDATE: This just in! Because of weather-related issues, SoNA will perform a modified program Saturday evening with tabla master Sandeep Das and a chamber orchestra. Ticket holders who want to make ...

People around the world are discovering Shobhit Banwait thanks to his tabla versions of pop songs. The Brampton native plays the tabla — Indian hand drums — along to pop songs by the likes of Justin ...

Many Egyptians associate the tabla drum with belly dancers and seedy nightclubs but, despite its image problem, percussionists are giving the ancient instrument a new lease of life. And it is often ...

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New Delhi (AFP) – Indian musician Zakir Hussain, a four-time Grammy award winner credited with turning tabla drums into an instrument loved globally, has died at the age of 73, officials said Monday.

Hussain collaborated with musicians including George Harrison from The Beatles, Mickey Hart from The Grateful Dead and jazz musician John Handy in a career spanning decades. He died of a lung disease ...