Handmade in Dijkot, tablas carry centuries of musical tradition, with each stroke reflecting skill and enduring legacy ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among the tabla artistes in the country, one can count on their fingers the number of female tabla players, but among that small number is one who is making some good noise in the music scene — Tabla ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rhythm is claimed to be the forerunner of music about which men learnt during the early days of their sociological and cultural evolution. Before they discovered sur (musical notes) or invented saaz ...