The twin hand drum was developed in its current form about 300 years ago on the Indian subcontinent but the roots of the tabla may date to pre-Muslim, Arabia. The name comes from "tabl," the Arabic ...

Bill Laswell must have known he was really onto something special when assembling this lineup, crossing some slick cyber-techno acts with endlessly open-minded Indian classical musicians such as Ustad ...

Jazz takes on an entirely new dimension when combined with the melodious tunes of the violin and the soft thumps of the tabla. About 50 people got to experience this fusion first-hand at a two-day ...

Some people have all the luck in the world. We are talking about Subhankar Banerjee. After participating at the Edinburgh festival, he is now in Norway. But the tabla wizard is yet to get over ...

An arts initiative invited the tabla maestro to mentor jazz percussionist Marcus Gilmore. We sat down with the guru and shishya to talk about their time together. For 16 years, an artistic mentorship ...

The line-up for the Barbican's Tabla Beat Science perfomance (the first in this year's genre-mingling Only Connect series) might resemble a producer's paper-calculation of what a multi-ethnic ...

Jorhat, April 23: Jazz revved up with touches from Israel and the classical Indian tabla will be heard this season, along with the stirring beats and shrill strains of the Bihu dhol and pepa in Jorhat ...

In a time that seems so distant as to be mythical, Afghanistan was not known as the most dangerous place on earth. And in that time there was no more recognised image of the country and its people ...

Badal Roy, a tabla player who worked with both Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman as they explored trailblazing electric sounds, died on January 18. He was 82. His death was confirmed to NPR by his niece ...