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 ...

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, ...

Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San ...

How would you spend your birthday if you were a classically trained tabla player with an ear for global music and out-of-kilter rhythms of all kinds? If you’re mountain-dwelling Andy Skellenger, you ...

Zakir Hussain, one of India's most accomplished classical musicians who defied genres and introduced tabla to global audiences, died on Sunday. He was 73. The Indian classical music icon died from ...

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 ...

Lord Krishna, Hinduism’s compassionate god of divine love, is often portrayed with a flute in hand. Perhaps that has something to do with the story that when he cut a large drum in half, producing two ...

“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 ...