Latest Release
- MAR 1, 2024
- 1 Song
- As We Speak (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia) · 2023
- Remember Shakti (feat. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia & Vikku Vinayakram) · 1999
- The Best of Zakir Hussain · 2003
- The Best of Tabla Vol. 2 · 1991
- As We Speak (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia) · 2023
- Remember Shakti (feat. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia & Vikku Vinayakram) · 1999
- Mohanam - Single · 2023
- As We Speak (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia) · 2023
- As We Speak (feat. Rakesh Chaurasia) · 2023
- Tabla - The Zakir Hussain Way · 1991
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
- Child prodigy, tabla maestro and world-class percussionist–say hello to Zakir Hussain.
- This man has magic fingers.
Live Albums
- 2000
- 2000
- 1990
- Charles Lloyd
- John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan
- Ustad Vilayat Khan, Zakir Hussain & Hidayat Khan
About Zakir Hussain
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).
- HOMETOWN
- Bombay, India
- BORN
- March 9, 1951
- GENRE
- Worldwide