Fazal Qureshi | |
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Born | 13 February 1961 |
Origin | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Genres | Hindustani classical music, jazz fusion |
Occupation | Tabla player |
Instrument(s) | Tabla, Kanjira |
Member of | Mynta |
Ustad Fazal Qureshi ( born 13 February 1961) is an Indian tabla player. Born to the tabla player Ustad Allah Rakha, [1] under the guidance of his father and guru, with the inspiration drawn from his brother, Ustad Zakir Hussain, he has also become a tabla player. He has expanded his horizons by being involved with other styles of music of the world especially Jazz and Western classical music, and has performed with many well known Jazz musicians[ citation needed ]. For the last 16 years he has been associated with Mynta, his world music band based in Sweden. They have performed all over the world and have released six albums. He teaches tabla to students in the Ustad Alla Rakha Institute of Music near Shivaji Park, Dadar., [2] [1]
Fazal is married to Birwa, an interior designer from school of interior design, CEPT UNI, and a folk dancer. [3] They have a daughter, Alia, who is studying ballet, and a son, Azann, who is learning piano. [3]
Ustad Zakir Hussain is an Indian tabla player, composer, percussionist, music producer and film actor. He is the eldest son of tabla player Alla Rakha. He is widely considered as one of the greatest tabla players of all time.
Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi, mononymously known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player who specialised in Hindustani classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to the Western audience.
Badal Roy was an Indian tabla player, percussionist, and recording artist known for his work in jazz, world music, and experimental music.
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Paṅjāb Gharānā, sometimes called Punjabi or Paṅjābī Gharānā, is a style and technique of tabla playing that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, now split between present-day Pakistan and India. The Punjab Gharana is considered one of the six main styles of tabla, the others being Delhi, Ajrada, Banares, Lucknow, and Farrukhabad. The repertoire of the Punjab Gharana is heavily influenced by the Pakhawaj.
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Dildar Hussain is a Pakistani percussionist and tabla player. He is known for being the left handed tabla player for late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, a renowned Qawwali singer. Dildar Hussain played tabla for him in his qawwali-singing group until Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan died in 1997. Dildar Hussain belongs to the Punjab gharana of tabla-playing music artists. He is a shagird of Ustad Allah Rakha. Dildar Hussain plays the tabla left-handed
Suphala is a tabla artist, composer, and producer. She is a protégé of tabla players Ustad Alla Rakha and Zakir Hussain and is based in New York City.
Ustad Ahmed Jan Khan "Thirakwa" was an Indian tabla player, commonly considered the pre-eminent soloist among tabla players of the 20th century, and among the most influential percussionists in the history of Indian Classical Music.
Ustad Taufiq Qureshi is an Indian classical musician. He is a percussionist and composer.
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Anuradha Pal is an Indian Tabla player and composer who began learning the tabla before the age of seven. Despite traditional gender expectations around the instrument, Pal was encouraged to study tabla alongside her brother. In 1996, she founded Stree Shakti, one of India's first all-female classical music ensembles.
Péter Szalai is a Hungarian tabla player musician
In Concert 1972 is a double live album by sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar and sarodiya Ali Akbar Khan, released in 1973 on Apple Records. It was recorded at the Philharmonic Hall, New York City, in October 1972, and is a noted example of the two Hindustani classical musicians' celebrated jugalbandi (duet) style of playing. With accompaniment from tabla player Alla Rakha, the performance reflects the two artists' sorrow at the recent death of their revered guru, and Khan's father, Allauddin Khan. The latter was responsible for many innovations in Indian music during the twentieth century, including the call-and-response dialogue that musicians such as Shankar, Khan and Rakha popularised among Western audiences in the 1960s.
Shamim Ahmed Khan was a sitarist and composer, and notably, a student of Pandit Ravi Shankar. His solo recording debut was at the age of 29. Shamim had performed in Carnegie Hall, at the Lincoln Center, at the Griffith Center, among other concert halls. Although an exponent of Indian classical music, he was also associated with western musicians such as Buddy Rich, and Paul Horn among others.
Amit Kavthekar is an Indian tabla player known as the last ganda-bandhan of Utd. Allarakha Khansaheb and a prominent disciple of Utd. Zakir Hussain. Kavthekar is regarded as one of the leading young artists of Indian Classical music and tabla.
Shaukat HussainKhan, commonly referred to as Miyan Shaukat Hussain, was a Pakistani tabla player who belonged to the Punjab gharana of tabla-playing music artists.
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