Dec 17, 2024 9:58 AM
Tabla Master Zakir Hussain, 73, Succumbs to Illness
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
In support of her second album, Dreaming Wide Awake (Verve Forecast), vocalist Lizz Wright is planning a U.S. tour in June and July. Her performance at the World Financial Center Plaza in New York kicks off the 12-date trek.
Wright’s summer tour dates are:
June 14: World Financial Center Plaza, New York
June 15-16: Joe’s Pub, New York
June 18: World Café Live, Philadelphia
June 19: Ramshead, Annapolis, Md.
June 20: Birchmere, Alexandria, Va.
June 23: Club Café, Pittsburgh
June 24: Nighttown, Cleveland
June 25: Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Satatoga Springs, N.Y.
June 27: The Ark, Ann Arbor, Mich.
June 28: Schubas, Chicago
July 1: Scullers, Boston
July 2: Club Soda, Montreal
“Watching people like Max Roach or Elvin Jones and seeing how they utilize the whole drum kit in a very rhythmic and melodic way and how they stretched time — that was a huge inspiration to me,” Hussain said in DownBeat.
Dec 17, 2024 9:58 AM
Tabla master Ustad Zakir Hussain, one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors and a revered figure worldwide…
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