All three started giving solo performances ... He also won five Grammys. Ustad Zakir Hussain belonged to the Punjab gharana, one of the six major traditions in tabla. The Punjab gharana’s ...

His brilliant accompaniment, solo performance and genre-defying collaborations ... It is with great sadness that All About Jazz notes the passing of tabla maestro Zakir Hussain, who died of idiopathic ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest ... Through his performances, he transformed the tabla into a globally loved solo instrument that was the star of the show. The tabla - a pair of drums ...

‘A Celebration of the Life and Music of Zakir Hussain’ takes place on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

MUMBAI (Reuters) -Zakir Hussain, whose "dancing fingers" made him one of the greatest players of the tabla or Indian drums and who became ... A child prodigy, he was known for his dazzling solo ...

Pune: Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain may not have formally taught many ... having given some milestone concerts starting with a solo presentation at the Sawai Gandharva festival at such a young ...

Join us as we celebrate the extraordinary life and timeless legacy of the legendary tabla virtuoso and composer Ustad Zakir ...

Zakir Hussain Qureshi was born on March 9, 1951, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. He was the eldest son of Ravi Shankar's longtime tabla drummer ... members on the 1971 solo album by the Dead's ...

An Akhand Path was held in memory of legendary tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain at Amritsar's Golden Temple on Thursday morning. The ceremony was organized by the late tabla maestro's younger ...

“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 ...