‘A Celebration of the Life and Music of Zakir Hussain’ takes place on Saturday, Feb. 28, at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

and its title is Zakir. My feelings are somewhat like what saxophonist Jan Garbarek plays - there's gratitude, melody, sadness and also a warm sense of joyful nostalgia. I can hear your tabla ...

Kamal Haasan shared a personal memory, posting an image of himself playing tabla with Hussain. “Zakir Bhai! He left too soon. Yet we are grateful for the times he gave us and what he left behind ...

“It was a conspiracy,” the virtuosic Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain joked, when asked by the BBC to explain his genesis as a percussionist. “I was not at all a part of it.” It began ...

Mumbai honored tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain with a heartfelt tribute, celebrating his legacy and impact on global music and humanity “We don’t keep large vessels at home for daily use to ...

Tabla maestro Ustad Zakir Hussain, died at a San Francisco hospital last week due to a respiratory condition; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). He was 73. The percussionist was laid to rest at ...

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.

Zakir Hussain was laid to rest on Thursday at a San Francisco cemetery as renowned percussionist A Sivamani and other artistes performed on their drums at a little distance away in a tribute to the ...

Just two weeks ago, while I was talking about your influence on my life — showing the audience in the Indian Museum in Kolkata the Zakir Hussain maquette ... “I play the tabla and she plays ...

He can play so fast that it’s a blur’ Zakir Hussain, who has died aged 73, was a master tabla player whose virtuosity carried his fame beyond his Indian homeland; to Western audiences he was ...