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[TITLE: Zakir Hussain, indischer Tabla-Spieler, spielt gemeinsam mit Shankar als Shankar-Hussain Duo auf dem Jazz Fest Berlin, Philharmonie, 1981. (Photo by kpa/United Archives via Getty Images)] [AUTHOR: kpa/United Archives] [SOURCE: Getty]

Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 28 May 2017. Zakir Hussain's music has been featured on 39 episodes.

Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951), son of tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, is the most famous classical tabla player in India (and, probably, in the world) today. He is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He has won many awards and much recognition for his contributions.

Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison. In the 1970s he recorded with an American psychedelic band called Shanti, with John McLaughlin in Shakti, with Shankar in the Diga Rhythm Band, with Mickey Hart on his Rolling Thunder album, and on the soundtrack for the movie Apocalypse Now. Shakti reunited in 1998 under the name Remember Shakti. Zakir Hussain has also continued to perform on many of Mickey Hart's albums, including Planet Drum, and on numerous recordings by John McLaughlin.

In 1992, Zakir Hussain founded Monument Records to produce live concert performances by masters of the classical music of India. The label presents Zakir's own world percussion ensemble, The Rhythm Experience, both North and South Indian classical recordings, Best of Shakti, and a Masters of Percussion series.

He has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Vasant Rai, Imrat Khan, Ravi Shankar, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, David Grisman, Billy Cobham, Jan Garbarek, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kronos Quartet, the Hong Kong Symphony and the New Orleans Symphony.

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Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain has been played over 50 times on NTS, first on 28 May 2017. Zakir Hussain's music has been featured on 39 episodes.

Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951), son of tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, is the most famous classical tabla player in India (and, probably, in the world) today. He is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He has won many awards and much recognition for his contributions.

Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison. In the 1970s he recorded with an American psychedelic band called Shanti, with John McLaughlin in Shakti, with Shankar in the Diga Rhythm Band, with Mickey Hart on his Rolling Thunder album, and on the soundtrack for the movie Apocalypse Now. Shakti reunited in 1998 under the name Remember Shakti. Zakir Hussain has also continued to perform on many of Mickey Hart's albums, including Planet Drum, and on numerous recordings by John McLaughlin.

In 1992, Zakir Hussain founded Monument Records to produce live concert performances by masters of the classical music of India. The label presents Zakir's own world percussion ensemble, The Rhythm Experience, both North and South Indian classical recordings, Best of Shakti, and a Masters of Percussion series.

He has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Vasant Rai, Imrat Khan, Ravi Shankar, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, David Grisman, Billy Cobham, Jan Garbarek, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kronos Quartet, the Hong Kong Symphony and the New Orleans Symphony.

Original source: Last.fm

Tracks featured on

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Making Music
Zakir Hussain
ECM Records1987
Raga Bihag
Brij Bhushan Kabra, Zakir Hussain
His Master's Voice1984
Toni
Zakir Hussain
ECM Records1987
Water Girl
Zakir Hussain
ECM Records1987
Jiya Jiya Na Jiya
Hariharan, Ustad Zakir Hussain
Magnasound, OMI (Original Music Impressions)1992
Matta Taal
Ustad Alla Rakha, Ustad Zakir Hussain
Saregama2003
Tabla Recital With Commentary & Demonstration Teental (Punjabi Peshkar - Qaida - Khand Jati & Gats)
Ustad Zakir Hussain, Ustad Alla Rakha
RPG Music1998
Kaunsi Kanhra
Shivkumar Sharma, Zakir Hussain
His Master's Voice1994
You And Me
Zakir Hussain
ECM Records1987
Mother Tongues
John McLaughlin And The 4th Dimension, Zakir Hussain
Abstract Logix2011