Renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain, banjo legend Béla Fleck, double bassist Edgar Meyer, and bansuri player Rakesh Chaurasia have formed a mesmerizing quartet whose music unfolds like a conversation.

Today, renowned tabla player Zakir Hussain, banjo legend Béla Fleck, double bassist Edgar Meyer and bansuri player Rakesh Chaurasia announced a new album titled As We Speak, which will release May 12 ...

Ustaad Zakir Hussain, one of the world’s greatest tabla players and pioneer of Indian classical music, died last month. He was a revolutionary in music that transcended borders, playing with jazz, ...

Béla Fleck, the musician who brought the banjo from bluegrass to pop and back again, will perform at The Shedd on Monday, Nov. 20, on his As We Speak tour with Zakir Hussain on the tabla, Edgar Meyer ...

Blending Indian and Western classical music with bluegrass is like talking among friends. “When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation,” ...

“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 when Hussain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mickey Hart was with Zakir Hussain right until “the moment that he left this plane” on Dec. 15 at the age of 73– as well he should ...

Grammy winners banjo master Bela Fleck, bassist Edgar Meyer and tabla player Zakir Hussain composed “The Melody of Rhythm Concerto,” commissioned for the opening of the Nashville Symphony’s ...

Following word of the Summer 2023 release of This Moment - their first new studio album in 46 years - revolutionary world music ensemble Shakti will continue to discover and explore the musical common ...

Zakir Hussain, an internationally renowned tabla player and composer who helped integrate Indian classical sound into Western music, has died at age 73. Hussain died Sunday afternoon in San Francisco ...