He introduced the tabla — a pair of hand drums that is the main percussion instrument in Indian classical music — to global audiences. Zakir Hussain, one of India’s most accomplished classical ...

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, ...

Zakir Hussain, a prolific Indian musician known for playing the tabla, died on Sunday in San Francisco, his management company confirmed. He was 73. Tabla, a percussion instrument, is one of the ...

Like any classically trained musician from India, Zakir Hussain was intensively schooled in an ancient art and culture. Born into a musical family in Mumbai in 1951, he learned to play the tablas - a ...

Zakir Hussain, virtuoso of the tabla instrument and a towering figure in Indian classical music, died on Dec. 15 of chronic lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at a hospital in San Francisco.

The classic arrangement of a small double-drum is an instrument design that is so good that they are found everywhere throughout the world. The tabla is a well-known double-drum from India. The double ...

All this week, Morning Edition is talking about drums and drummers. For the fourth installment in "Beat Week," David Greene spoke with a master of an ancient tradition who has played with some of the ...

In Islamic tradition, the father of a newborn is expected to recite the adhan, or call to prayer, in his child’s right ear, so that the first sounds the baby hears upon entering this world are ...

Zakir Hussain’s name was twice the size of Niladri Kumar’s on the cover of the program for the duo’s Washington Performing Arts concert Thursday at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue. Yet Hussain, the ...

Ya saltaron al teatro internacional y a la pantalla grande. Ahora, los populares personajes de “High School Musical” llegarán a las tablas del país a partir del 19 al 21 de marzo en el Centro de ...

Desde los frescos de la Capilla Sixtina hasta las pantallas de Hollywood, Moisés es una figura recurrente en el imaginario colectivo. Lo hemos visto convertido en mármol por Miguel Ángel, flotando en ...