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The Indian-born tabla player and composer, teacher, and advocate Zakir Hussain, son of Ustad Alla Rahka, who passed away in late 2024, wasn't just a virtuoso improviser - he was one of the world's exceptional percussionists, working in many genres, and was the world's preeminent tabla master. He was a great communicator in many musical languages, including jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, Nigerian talking drums, or Indonesian gamelan; he was also a great listener and a bringer of joy (editor can't help herself.) One of the most exciting ways that Zakir Hussain shared tabla specifically, and percussion more broadly was by way of the Masters of Percussion Tour – which was exactly as stunning and marvelous as a music fan (especially a drum nerd) might ever imagine. Zakir turned the tabla into a global instrument by way of his incredible collaborations, playing with everyone from George Harrison to Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, from John McLaughlin's Shakti and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; he's laid down beats for Scottish fiddlers Charlie McKerron (Capercaillie) and Patsy Reid (formerly of Breabach); played concertos with western orchestras, with and without banjo player Bela Fleck and bassist Edgar Meyer, and performed and recorded with scores of Indian classical musicians. Zakir Hussain enjoyed the different challenges that each new collaborator “will throw at him”. For this edition of the Soundcheck Podcast, Ustad Zakir Hussain joined Pandit Rahul Sharma, the son of illustrious santoor master Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, who established the pedigree of the santoor within Indian Classical Music. Pt. Rahul Sharma has since built on his father's style, “taking the santoor to new corners of the world”, (Darbar.org). Rahul Sharma has also collaborated widely across genres, having released some 60 albums, split between classical Indian music and more experimental recordings. Rahul Sharma and Zakir Hussain played in-studio in Oct of 2024, just about six weeks before Hussain passed away. - Caryn Havlik Set list: 1. Dhun: Misra Pahadi 2. Dhun Keharwa Sharma explains the roots of the santoor, and gives a quick demonstration of its 94 strings which require precise tuning:  Zakir Hussain also gave an intimidatingly fast explainer of some of the syllables of tabla, what the left and right hand might do, with unbelievable and impressive speed: See their performances:    

pWotD Episode 2785: Zakir Hussain (musician) Welcome to Popular Wiki of the Day, spotlighting Wikipedia's most visited pages, giving you a peek into what the world is curious about today.With 335,340 views on Monday, 16 December 2024 our article of the day is Zakir Hussain (musician).Zakir Hussain Allarakha Qureshi (9 March 1951 – 15 December 2024) was an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer, and film actor. He was known for bringing classical Indian music to a global audience. He was the eldest son of tabla player Alla Rakha, and won four Grammy Awards.Hussain was awarded the United States National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship, the highest award given to traditional artists and musicians. He was also awarded the Government of India's Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1990, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship, Ratna Sadsya in 2018.Hussain received seven Grammy Award nominations, with four wins, including three in 2024.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:37 UTC on Tuesday, 17 December 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Zakir Hussain (musician) on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm generative Danielle.

Zakir Hussain's name is practically synonymous with the tablas. His work ranges from classical Indian compositions to Hollywood film scores, to collaborations with rockstars like George Harrison and Van Morrison. His latest albums are Shakti's "This Moment,” and “As We Speak” – a collaboration with Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer. Zakir Hussain talks to AR about what he continues to learn about his craft at the age of 72; his father Alla Rakha, who introduced tablas to the West; his mother's crucial role in his career; and what prevented him from becoming a rock drummer. The Museum wishes to thank The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation for their generous support of This Being Human. FURTHER RESOURCES: You can see Zakir Hussain's upcoming tour dates with Shakti and Béla Fleck here: https://zakirhussain.com/tour/ Watch a performance from As We Speak here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsE_8JNhqE If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn more, go to: agakhanmuseum.org/thisbeinghumanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Genius Indian tabla player Zakir Hussain, is one of the world's exceptional percussionists. The son of Ustad Alla Rahka, Zakir is also a composer, improviser, and a great communicator in Persian, Gujarati, German, English, as well as in jazz, Afro-Cuban rhythms, Nigerian talking drums, or Indonesian gamelan. One of the most exciting ways that Zakir Hussain shares this deep and vast knowledge in performance is by way of the Masters of Percussion Tour – which is exactly as stunning as a music fan (especially a drum nerd) might ever imagine. For the 2019 tour (in the before times), the ensemble included the sitar virtuoso and instrument inventor Niladri Kumar, and the extraordinary jazzer Eric Harland (Charles Lloyd, Dave Holland's Prism) on Western drums. Zakir Hussain, Niladri Kumar, and Eric Harland join us in-studio for a sample of this astounding musical magic. - (NSAPA and drum nerd Caryn Havlik) Watch the session here: 

Chris and Sridhar answer more questions in the final installment of the Anniversary Special: 1.) What're your opinions on “pop” classical musicians such as André Rieu? 2.) Sridhar, have you ever played an Indian flute? 3.) Chris, how do I learn to play jazz? 4.) What is your favorite movie about classical music? Thank you to all of our listeners for tuning in over the past year, and here's to another! Cheers! Useful links: André Rieu - The Beautiful Blue Danube Chris Botti and Josh Groban - Old Devil Moon James Galway - Danny Boy Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar - West Meets East L'aube enchantée based on the raga "todo" by Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha - Raga Desh Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha explain Indian classical rhythms Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha live in London Ravi Shankar and Alla Rakha at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival Chad LB's YouTube Channel Aimee Nolte's YouTube Channel Tony Winston's YouTube Channel Whiplash - Amazon Prime Schubert - "Trout" Quintet Documentary

Aditya Kalyanpur is a virtuoso tabla player based in India and the United States. In this episode, Aditya shares the story of his study with legendary North Indian classical music master Ustad Allarahka Qureshi, also known as Alla Rakha, who first became known to Westerners as Ravi Shankar’s drummer. Aditya tells of his close relationship with Alla Rakha, or Abbaji, and his equally talented sons Taufiq Qureshi and Zakir Hussein, including the ganda bandhan ceremony they had when he was ten years old. We discuss the differences and similarities from traditional guru -disciple training (gurukul), training in Alla Rakha’s evening school, and online classes today. Aditya also talks about the challenges and pleasures of touring, the many responsibilities of a professional musician, and his dedication (shraddha) to practice (riyaz). We recorded the interview at the beginning of the COVID-19 quarentine, so you will hear us speak about that as well.Aditya’s website is: https://adityakalyanpur.com/ Here is a short composition played by Aditya Kalyanpur and sitar player Niladri KumarHere is his 2019 Melbourne International Jazz Day performance with Herbie HancockAditya spoke of: Legendary vocalist Dr. Prabha AtreMaster violinists Dr. T.N. Krishnan and Dr. N. RajamFusion artist Abhijit PohankarThe outro music on this episode is “Raga Jhinjhoti” performed by Aditya Kalyanpur and sitar player Pandit Nayan Ghosh, from Pt. Ghosh’s Enchanting Sitar albumArt Lives Theme and Incidental music composed by Nicholaus Meyers, and performed by Nicholaus and Ken Jimenez. Art Lives Logo created by Eduardo Moreno. Art Lives is available here, Apple Podcasts and Stitcher. Art Lives Podcast RSS

Benjy Wertheimer is an award-winning musician, composer, vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist equally accomplished on tabla, congas, percussion, esraj, guitar and keyboards, Benjy Wertheimer has performed and recorded with such artists as Krishna Das, Deva Premal and Miten, Jai Uttal, Walter Becker of Steely Dan, virtuoso guitarist Michael Mandrell, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and renowned bamboo flute master G. S. Sachdev. He has also opened for such well-known artists as Carlos Santana, Paul Winter, and Narada Michael Walden. Benjy is a founding member of the internationally acclaimed world fusion ensemble Ancient Future.In addition to touring with Shantala, Benjy is a founding member of the sacred music ensemble The Hanumen (including Gaura Vani, John De Kadt, and Visvambhar Sheth of the Mayapuris) and has toured and produced two CDs with them since 2009.  Benjy joined David Michael and Grammy winner Nancy Rumbel to form the Confluence Trio in 2019. They released their first CD, Confluence, in May 2019.He began his musical studies at age five, starting with piano and later violin, flamenco guitar, and Afro-Cuban percussion. Benjy has been a student of Indian classical music for over 40 years, sitting with some of the greatest masters of that tradition, including Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain, Ali Akbar Khan, and Z. M. Dagar. Along with the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, he was a contributing composer and member of the Zakir Hussain Rhythm Experience. Trained in audio engineering at San Francisco State University, Benjy is also very much in demand as a producer, engineer, and studio session musician.Benjy has produced 18 CDs since 2000, which receive extensive airplay around the world, and his CD Circle of Fire went to #1 on the New Age radio charts. Benjy is also in demand as a scoring composer, having scored for such varied projects as NBC's Santa Barbara series and the Emmy-nominated documentary SEED: The Untold Story. Making his home in Portland, Oregon, he now tours internationally with his wife Heather in the kirtan group Shantala.Click here to download Shantala's newest release, "LIVE2Love."Click here to download "Voice of the Esraj" and all of Benjy and Shantala's albums:https://shantalamusic.com/store/voice-of-the-esraj/With love,StuSupport the show (https://stuartwatkins.org/podcast/)

Pour éclairer les tensions récurrentes et même les combats épisodiques entre Inde et Pakistan, le Collimateur de l’IRSEM reçoit cette semaine Christophe Jaffrelot, directeur de recherches au CERI de Sciences Po, auteur notamment du Syndrome pakistanais (Fayard, 2013) et de L’Inde de Modi (Fayard, 2019). Avec Alexandre Jubelin, il commence par revenir sur la longue histoire des guerres indo-pakistanaises, qui commencent dès l’indépendance de 1947 par rapport à l’empire britannique et à la discorde autour du Cachemire (2:25) et se prolongent au cours de la Guerre froide (8:00), notamment en 1965 (13:30) et en 1971 (20:00). Puis ils abordent l’arrivée progressive du nucléaire dans cette relation à partir de 1974 et des premiers essais atomiques indiens (26:00), jusqu’à la période de diversification du conflit vers une dimension non-conventionnelle, au cours des années 1990 (30:00). L’étape suivante est le 11 septembre puis l’intervention américaine en Afghanistan, qui place le Pakistan dans une situation compliquée face à son allié américain, entre proximité avec les talibans et aide aux Etats-Unis (34:00), qui se complique encore avec le rapprochement de ces derniers avec l’Inde (40:30) puis avec les interventions de drones sur le territoire pakistanais et l’élimination d’Oussama Ben Laden (42:50). Enfin, ils abordent le durcissement récent et les tensions depuis l’arrivée au pouvoir de Narendra Modi en Inde en 2014 (46:50) — et du cas d’école que représente le conflit dans la réflexion sur l’arme atomique (53:15). Extraits audio : Led Zeppelin - "Kashmir" sur l’album Physical Graffiti (1975) Ravi Shankar & Alla Rakha - "Evening Raga" (Live at Woodstock 1969)

“Indian music does not stop and start with Ravi Shankar.” So says tabla master Zakir Hussain, who, along with young sitar virtuoso, Niladri Kumar, joins John in the studio for a live performance.   Zakir Hussain, son of Ustad Alla Rahka, isn’t just a genius Indian tabla player and composer, as well as a virtuoso improviser - he is, bar none, one of the world’s great percussionists working in many genres. Zakir is a global citizen open to all kinds of collaborations, playing with everyone from George Harrison to the Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead, from John McLaughlin's Shakti and Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Project; he’s laid down beats for Scottish fiddlers Charlie McKerron (Capercaillie) and Patsy Reid (formerly of Breabach), and performed and recorded with scores of Indian classical musicians. Then, there was the recording by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin of a triple concerto featuring fellow soloists Bela Fleck and Edgar Meyer, along with Zakir Hussain’s own showcases of otherworldly drum wizards, the Masters of Percussion.  Now, Niladri Kumar, who made his first public performance at the age of 6, comes from a long line of sitar players -which goes some five generations back; his father was Pandit Kartik Kumar. Niladri also did recording sessions for Hindi films from a very young age, and happens to be in a band called Sitar Funk, a global fusion of Hindi film music, Indian classical, and Western music. He’s even gone electric, creating an invention called the Zitar, a combination of sitar and guitar. It has fewer strings (5 instead of 20) with an electric pickup inside, so that Niladri can get a rock guitar sound out of it. OH – and he plays chords on the sitar. Niladri Kumar has been part of the Masters of Percussion tour, and this is his second duo tour with Zakir Hussain. Niladri Kumar and Zakir Hussain perform a radio-friendly (short) Raga Charukeshi, for Rupak Tal (a seven beat rhythmic cycle) and Raga Bhairavi in Teental (16 beats.)  Not to gush, but Zakir Hussain can communicate in so many languages – Persian, Gujarati, German, English- that it’s no wonder that he is also versed in many musical languages – like being able to speak jazz or Afro-Cuban rhythms, Nigerian talking drums, or Indonesian gamelan.  To him, improvising is like speaking that language. (Perhaps for percussion nerds,) Zakir also treats us to a spoken drum conversation, or “reciting the Bols” – the syllables that correspond to the strokes of the tabla- like “Dha ti ra ki ta” and “na ga dhin na dhin na gin na.” 

Michael Berkeley meets Turner Prize-nominated conceptual artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood, whose latest work, Nowhere Boy, documents the early life of John Lennon. Much of her work has been inspired by music, from opera to Bach, and her choices range from the opening of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice, the Kyrie from Mozart's Requiem and the opening of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to an Indian raga and Nina Simone singing Wild Is the Wind as well as film scores by Ry Cooder and Michael Nyman. Sig: M Berkeley: The Wakeful Poet (Music from Chaucer) Beaux Arts Brass Quintet (Berkeley/OUP) Duration: 0m26s Mozart: Introitus (Requiem in D Minor, KV626) Marie McLaughlin (soprano) Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra Leonard Bernstein (conductor) DG 431 041-2 Tr 1 Duration: 6m39s Ravi Shankar: Prabhati Ravi Shankar (sitar) Yehudi Menuhin (violin) Alla Rakha (tabla) (Shankar, based on Raga Gunkali) Menuhin meets Shankar EMI CDC7490702 Tr 1 Duration: 4m06s Gluck: Ah ! Se intorno a quest'urna funesta (Orfeo ed Euridice) Orfeo ...... Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) Rias-Kammerchor Freiburger Barockorchester Rene Jacobs (conductor) HARMONIA MUNDI HMC90174243, CD 1 Tr 2 Duration: 3m18s John Lennon: Love Lennon/Lenono Music/BMG Muic Publishing Ltd The John Lennon Collection PARLAPHONE CDP7915162 Tr 7 Duration: 3m19s Beethoven: Symphony No 9 in D minor Op 125 (1st mvt - excerpt) Staatskapelle Berlin Daniel Barenboim (conductor) ERATO 4509 94353-2 Tr 1 Duration: 5m25s Ry Cooder: Paris, Texas (Paris, Texas - film sountrack) Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, David Lindley (Cooder/Tonopah and Tidewater Music Co BMI) Original Film Soundtrack WARNER 9252702 Tr 1 Duration: 2m56s Nina Simone: Wild Is the Wind Nina Simone (piano/voice) Rudy Stevenson (guitar) Lisle Atkinson (bass) Bobby Hamilton (drums) (D Tiomkin, N Washington arr Nina Simone, Famous Music Corp) Work Song (The 60's vol 3) MERCURY 8385452 Tr 8 Duration: 6m58s Michael Nyman: The Heart Asks Pleasure First (The Piano - film soundtrack) Michael Nyman (piano) Nyman/Chester Music Ltd The Piano VENTURE CDVE919 Tr 4 Duration: 1m33s.