Zakir Hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a lung disease, at a hospital in San ...

By Jon Pareles Zakir Hussain, a percussionist and composer who was both a master of North Indian classical music and a linchpin of far-reaching world-music fusions, died on Sunday in San Francisco.

Indian percussion marvel Zakir Hussain will long be hailed for his sublime musical mastery and the genre-blurring versatility that saw him collaborate with everyone from George Harrison ...