Latest Release

- JAN 20, 2023
- Mohanam - Single
- 1 Song
- Trios: Sacred Thread (feat. Julian Lage & Zakir Hussain) · 2022
- Remember Shakti (feat. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia & Vikku Vinayakram) · 1999
- Global Drum Project (feat. Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju & Giovanni Hidalgo) · 2007
- Tabla - The Zakir Hussain Way · 1991
- The Best of Zakir Hussain · 2003
- The Melody of Rhythm · 1998
- Rhythmic Impressions of Ustad Zakir Hussain · 2003
- The Melody of Rhythm · 1998
- Remember Shakti (feat. Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia & Vikku Vinayakram) · 1999
- The Melody of Rhythm · 1998
Essential Albums
Artist Playlists
Child prodigy, tabla maestro and world-class percussionist–say hello to Zakir Hussain.
This man has magic fingers.
2023
2022
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Compilations
Charles Lloyd
John Handy & Ali Akbar Khan
Ustad Vilayat Khan, Zakir Hussain & Hidayat 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