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In a small studio a couple blocks from Congo Square in New Orleans, with a copy of The Mysticism of Sound and Music: The Sufi Teaching of Hazrat Inayat
In the vast expanse of sound and spirit, floating through the realms of musical infinity, there drifts a vessel helmed by the illustrious Zakir Hussain, the tabla virtuoso whose fingers mold rhythm and melody out of thin air. Today, March 9th, 2024, we at Grateful Web journey across the cosmic waves to pay homage to this legendary figure, a beacon in the world of music, on his birthday.
He will turn 73 in March and he has just won three Grammys. But that is not going to slow down the maestro. Ustad Zakir Hussain is as busy with his Hindustani classical and fusion projects as he was when he started his career nearly six decades ago.
The first time banjo legend Béla Fleck, tabla master Zakir Hussain, and double bass virtuoso Edgar Meyer got together to make an album, it was to write, not to play.