His collaborators have ranged from Van Morrison, Yo-Yo Ma, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and Béla Fleck to the Kronos Quartet, the Mark Morris Dance Group, the National Symphony Orchestra and such jazz luminaries as Herbie Hancock, Charles Lloyd and Joe Henderson. Like no one else on his instrument, this esteemed World Music pioneer soars in a dizzying array of settings. The best tabla players - and Hussain has long been hailed as the best of the best - require remarkable skill, precision and dexterity to deftly perform using their palms, wrists and multiple finger combinations with both hands. That something is more than just Hussain’s masterful command of the tablas, two tuned hand drums that have been pillars of the Hindustani classical music of northern India since at least the 1800s. “What was brought home to me by George and - a few years later - by John McLaughlin, with whom I co-founded the band Shakti, is that the reason I was sitting with them making music is because I had something to offer they craved, something that was not part of their musical worlds.”
So why do you want to be the 501st-greatest rock drummer?’ But what I really need is a tabla player who understands both worlds of rhythm, Indian and Western. “George said: ‘If I open the doors to this recording studio, there are 500 of the greatest rock drummers who will lay down what I need.
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