Ustad with his son Zakir

Ustad Allah Rakha (April 29, 1919 - February 3, 2000) was a master of the tabla, a classical Hindustani percussion instrument. He is considered one of the great tabla players of the 20th century. April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A typical set of Tabla. ... Hindustani (हिन्‍दुस्‍थानी) classical music is an Indian classical music tradition originating in the North of the Indian subcontinent circa the 13th and 14th centuries CE. Developing a strong and diverse tradition over several centuries, it has contemporary...

Biography

Ustad Alla Rakha studied tabla with Guru Mian Kader Baksh from the age of twelve, and later voice with Ustad Ali Khan. He established himself as a leading tabla musician as a staff artiste for All India Radio, playing the station's first ever tabla solo and elevating the instrument's position in the process. However, he still also played as an accompanist, for soloists like Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, Ustad Allauddin Khan, Vasant Rai and Ravi Shankar. Guru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... // Overview All India Radio (AIR for short), officially known as Akashwani (Devanagari: आकाशवाणी, ākāshvānī) is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati (Broadcasting Corporation of India), an autonomous corporation of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India. ... Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan (b. ... Allauddin Khan (Bangla: ওস্তাদ আলাউদ্দীন খান, also known as Baba Allauddin Khan) (1862-1972) was an Indian classical musician and one of the greatest music teachers of the twentieth century. ... Pandit Ravi Shankar, Sitar Maestro © www. ...

The latter partnership was particularly successful, and his legendary and spellbinding performances with Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and the Woodstock Festival in 1969 served to introduce classical Indian music to general Western audiences. Leading American percussionists in Rock n' Roll, such as the Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart, admired him and studied his technique, benefiting greatly even from single meetings. Hart, a published authority on percussion in world music, said "Allarakha is the Einstein, the Picasso; he is the highest form of rhythmic development on this planet..." Poster promoting the festival The Monterey International Pop Music Festival took place from June 16 to June 18, 1967. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Woodstock may refer to: Woodstock Music and Art Festival, a 1969 U.S. rock festival which inspired a 1970 Warner Bros. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Rock and roll (also spelled rock n roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. ... Mickey Hart Mickey Hart (born September 11, 1943) is known as one of the two drummers from the rock band the Grateful Dead. ... World music is, most generally, all the music in the world [1]. More specifically, the term is currently used to classify the many genres of non-western music which were previously described as folk music or ethnic music. Succinctly, it can be described as local music from out there [2...

Allah Rakha also ventured into composing and directing film scores, and became a Guru to Yogesh Samsi and his sons Taufiq Qureshi and Fazal Qureshi.

His eldest son, Zakir Hussain is also an accomplished tabla virtuoso. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Sources

1. Inlay notes to A Life Story of a Genius compilation CD set (Saregama India Ltd, 2006)

External links

• Ustad Alla Rakha at allmusic.com