The tabla class sits in a circle on the floor while practicing. Jason Zinn is sitting on the floor in front of his tabla, a classical Indian drum that’s played by hand. As his lesson begins, he pays ...

Tabla maestro Anuradha Pal on her many struggles in being a female in a male dominated field where there was no precedent Ace tabla maestro, multi percussionist, composer and educator Anuradha Pal is ...

In a previous instalment in this series, we had listened to the entry of the tabla on tracks that included instrumental compositions in vilambit Teentaal. Today, we will observe the manner in which ...

Master tabla player Zakir Hussain was born with a destiny in music. His father Alla Rakha was a great tabla master and musical foil to Ravi Shankar for many years. Rakha raised Hussain to follow his ...

Pt Sukhvinder Singh Pinky, disciple of tabla guru and Padma Vibhushan Pt Kishan Maharaj, mesmerised Lucknowites as he staged a solo presentation during the two-day classical musical event recently ...

India, Feb. 21 -- Prodyut Mukherjee, Grammy Jury member and GiMA award-winning tabla maestro, captivated an esteemed gathering at the Lunch Music Concert hosted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in ...

Suddenly and without warning, Sandeep Das realized he’d traversed the vast Silk Road while sitting in an auditorium evaluating the three student ensembles he’d spent the day coaching. It wasn’t ...

Bhopal: On an eventful day for music city Gwalior, around 1300 tabla perfomers, including a four-year-old boy, performed in tandem to get recognition as the largest tabla ensemble in the Guinness Book ...

Tabla accompaniment to Kathak dance is very distinct from the kind that is heard in a vocal or instrumental performance. The nritta or pure dance element in Kathak is almost completely based on ...

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 ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain has left behind such a huge legacy with his “eternally dancing fingers” that his music is permanently housed in every music lover’s sensibilities. There is something ...