Play Zakir Hussain Radio
Zakir Hussain
On Tour
198,160 plays (37,655 listeners)
Ustad Zakir Hussain (born 9 March 1951), son of tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, is the most famous classical tabla player in India (and, probably, in the world) today. He is appreciated both in the field of percussion and in the music world at large. He has won many awards and much recognition for his contributions.
Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison. In the 1970s he recorded with an American psychedelic band called Shanti, with John McLaughlin in Shakti, with Shankar in the Diga Rhythm Band, with Mickey Hart on his Rolling Thunder album, and on the soundtrack for the movie Apocalypse Now. Shakti reunited in 1998 under the name Remember Shakti. Zakir Hussain has also continued to perform on many of Mickey Hart’s albums, including Planet Drum, and on numerous recordings by John McLaughlin.
In 1992, Zakir Hussain founded Monument Records to produce live concert performances by masters of the classical music of India. The label presents Zakir’s own world percussion ensemble, The Rhythm Experience, both North and South Indian classical recordings, Best of Shakti, and a Masters of Percussion series.
He has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Vasant Rai, Imrat Khan, Ravi Shankar, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, David Grisman, Billy Cobham, Jan Garbarek, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kronos Quartet, the Hong Kong Symphony and the New Orleans Symphony.
Zakir Hussain has worked with many leading Western and Indian artists, and has produced many works of East-West fusion, perhaps most notably with George Harrison. In the 1970s he recorded with an American psychedelic band called Shanti, with John McLaughlin in Shakti, with Shankar in the Diga Rhythm Band, with Mickey Hart on his Rolling Thunder album, and on the soundtrack for the movie Apocalypse Now. Shakti reunited in 1998 under the name Remember Shakti. Zakir Hussain has also continued to perform on many of Mickey Hart’s albums, including Planet Drum, and on numerous recordings by John McLaughlin.
In 1992, Zakir Hussain founded Monument Records to produce live concert performances by masters of the classical music of India. The label presents Zakir’s own world percussion ensemble, The Rhythm Experience, both North and South Indian classical recordings, Best of Shakti, and a Masters of Percussion series.
He has recorded and performed with artists as diverse as George Harrison, Ali Akbar Khan, Shivkumar Sharma, Vasant Rai, Imrat Khan, Ravi Shankar, Joe Henderson, Van Morrison, Jack Bruce, Tito Puente, Pharoah Sanders, David Grisman, Billy Cobham, Jan Garbarek, Earth, Wind and Fire, Kronos Quartet, the Hong Kong Symphony and the New Orleans Symphony.
Top Albums
-
Making Music
Zakir Hussain
Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $9.49
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $15.96
- eBay Search
-
Music Of The Deserts
Zakir Hussain Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes Search
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
-
Sambandh
Zakir Hussain Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 Search
- 7digital Search
- iTunes $9.99
- Buy Album
- Amazon $9.99
- eBay Search
-
The Elements - Space
Zakir Hussain Buy- Download Album
- Amazon MP3 $7.99
- 7digital $7.77
- iTunes $2.97
- Buy Album
- Amazon Search
- eBay Search
Top Tracks
| 1 |
|
||||
| 2 |
|
||||
| 3 |
|
||||
| 4 |
|
||||
| 5 |
|
||||
| 6 |
|
||||
| 7 |
|
||||
| 7 |
|
The Great Indian Desert
full track
|
|||
| 9 |
|
||||
| 10 |
|
Nomads
full track
|
|||
| 11 |
|
Sandstorm
full track
|
|||
| 12 |
|
||||
| 13 |
|
||||
| 14 |
|
||||
| 15 |
|
Shoutbox
-
mdrosa wrote:
amazing see him playing. wish one day he came to play in Brazil
-
DirtyPockets wrote:
amaaaazing percussionist! If he collaborated with Jaki Liebezeit, I think my soul would explode instantaneously
-
skinnydrifter wrote:
:)
-
ohh1972 wrote:
Very nice
-
aotiv wrote:
Role model in his music and lifestyle. He's such an incredible performer!!!
-
1g0g wrote:
Zakir Hussain - спасибо!
-
onerom_lacroix wrote:
Great musician. :)
-
ZurDruid wrote:
TEENTAL ~!!!!!!! FAST TEMPO !!!!!!
-
phillip360 wrote:
♫ nourish, glue and inflate the soon to be estrus and electrified 'pataphysics group ♫
-
trueinstein wrote:
from Tabla Beat Science
-
sdf1013 wrote:
One of the leaders of the legendary "Diga Rhytm Band"
-
nevrasezer wrote:
Zakir Hussain's concert with group Taksim Trio as part of Istanbul Jazz festival was utterly magnificient, it felt as if the Byzantine Church of Aya Irını had been waiting for that magical night of music for centuries, the night when all doors of heaven had opened up via music.
-
BlurAllTheLines wrote:
it was so great and wonderful to see him live
-
zlato_e wrote:
http://www.indiafestival.nl/index.nl.php?section=programmaconcert&id=8
-
rameshhp wrote:
A rare musician with a great musical heart and brain! He brings out the best out of the main musician when he accompanies -- be it a vocalist like Jasraj or instrumentalist like Ravi Shankar, Shivkumar Sharma, or Hariprasad Chaurasia. His tabla solo and duet albums are great as well.
-
oou wrote:
A great musician!
-
luannn wrote:
http://www.lastfm.es/group/Shakti
-
jankii wrote:
WOW
-
astro1_rohit wrote:
tag: indian classical
-
Smekermann wrote:
i dunno about you guys but the elements: space kinda sucks imo
Videos
Events
- Mar 4 Zakir Hussain & The Masters of Percussion Moore Theatre, Seattle, United States
-
Mar
20
Shivkumar Sharma
Rialto Center for the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, United States
4 shouts
| 7 attendees
-
Mar
28
Zakir Hussain
Berklee Performance Center, Boston MA, United States
Add shout
| 2 attendees
Listeners
-
bladsurb
Top Listener
-
sothicblue
Top Listener
-
juhabuha
Top Listener
-
jamaican100
Top Listener
-
gvaldivia85
Top Listener
-
angelina005
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
carolyncowan added Zakir Hussain to carolyncowan’s library. 8 hours ago
-
trader97 tagged Zakir Hussain with indian classical and indian. 14 hours ago
-
trader97, pradee, djayeshv and 5 other people added Zakir Hussain to their libraries. 14 hours ago
-
PyroLord connected Zakir Hussain to the group Hindustani Music. Wednesday morning
-
claireboubou, AnnaTaka and kishore2009 added Zakir Hussain to their libraries. Tuesday evening
-
conmarjatta tagged Zakir Hussain with ‘zakir hussain’. last week
-
Max_stoned, hdcorporation, Percible_Heat and 7 other people added Zakir Hussain to their libraries. last week
-
WorldMusicCrash added Zakir Hussain to the lineup of Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion at Berklee Performance Center. last week
-
T3hLibrarian added Zakir Hussain to T3hLibrarian’s library. last week
-
Dpazair tagged Zakir Hussain with ‘indian’. last week
Related Journals
-
Shakti - Saturday Night in Bombay - Shringar
by ocean_mist |
2 Jul 2009 | Add comment
-
TOP 23 MUSICIANS FROM INDIA
by selcukalhan |
16 Apr 2009 | 2 comments
-
Masters of North Indian classical music
by rameshhp |
7 Dec 2007 | 1 comment
Groups (28)
-
World Music Network
373 members
-
Travelers
367 members
-
A Guided Tour Of The Cosmos
327 members
-
Eastern Invasion
321 members
-
Soundtrack
321 members
