Inevitably, the music can be both busy and breathless, demanding a concerted listen throughout. One might marvel at the drama ...

It is Allauddin Khan’s musical family that — when it comes to Hindustani instrumentalists — has afforded me the most ...

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain passed away on December 15 at the age of 73. He was admitted to San Francisco hospital, where he stayed in the ICU for two weeks. His condition worsened and he ...

IN The Beatles’ scheme the pop quartet assigned ... said Pataudi had something else in common with Zakir: music. “He carried the sitar and the tabla, which he could play proficiently, on ...

The Beatles were never content ... world of astern culture with the sitar? It’s not like that idea was pulled out of thin air, either. The band had slowly been incorporating everything from jazz to ...

There are plenty of worthwhile musical acts headed to Tallahassee in the first half of 2025. Tickets still available for most ...

Nayan Ghosh, who plays the sitar and tabla ... won a Grammy in the inaugural category of the "Best World Music Album". He ...

It’s the media that focuses on it, like [how] at one time Pandit Ravi Shankar was the poster boy of Indian music. It did not matter that there were equally good sitar players in India at that ...

Born March 9, 1951, in Mumbai, Hussain gleaned his tabla drumming skills from his father, Allarakha Khan, who served as sitar ... Indian music to much of the Western world, counted Beatles member ...

Music has always had a love/hate relationship ... After all, a few years earlier, Harrison had been introduced to the sitar, and he quickly incorporated the mystic sounds of the Indian instrument into ...

I regret not being able to collaborate with him as much as we did decades ago, though we had planned… Hussain’s work with sitar legend Ravi Shankar and flutist Shivkumar Sharma is essential listening ...