ALBUMRendezvous with Violin & TablaN. Rajam & Zakir Hussain
ALBUMGood HopeDave Holland, Zakir Hussain & Chris Potter
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Zakir Hussain Essentials
Child prodigy, tabla maestro and world-class percussionist–say hello to Zakir Hussain.
Zakir Hussain Essentials
This man has magic fingers.
Artist Biography
Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain has revolutionized the tradition of Indian percussion. The son of Ustad Allah Rakha, Hussain has recorded close to 100 albums as a featured collaborator, beginning with 1969's Sitar Recital with Indraneel Bhattacharya, and continuing in the '70s as a co-founding member of Shakti with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar. He spent most of the '80s recording as a billed collaborator, issued Making Music -- his widely celebrated Western group debut with Jan Garbarek and McLaughlin -- and in 1988 became the youngest percussionist awarded the title "Padma Shri." He worked on Mickey Hart's Grammy-winning Planet Drum in 1992 and followed with the breakthrough Indian jazz fusion outing The Elements: Space. Hussain's highlights since then include touring and recording with Yo Miles!, contributing to McLaughlin's Industrial Zen (2006), and recording The Melody of Rhythm: Triple Concerto & Music for Trio (2009) and Good Hope (2019).