Tabla-master Zakir Hussain heads The Rhythm Experience, a world percussion ensemble founded in 1984. His new release is world music at its very best, weaving the rhythms of India, Cuba, Africa, the Middle East and Indonesia into combinations of skillfully improvised exchanges with precise unison drumming. Guests include Mickey Hart, Narada Michael Walden, Mel Martin and Jim Loveless, as well as Zakir's father, Ustad Alla Rakha. The core group, with Fazal Qureshi, Dana Pandey, and ex-Diga Rhythm Band members Vince Delgado, Aushim Chaudhuri, Syed Arshad and Ray Spiegel, work out on an array of instruments, such as tabla, congas, darbukka, temple bells, maracas, claves, talking drum, vibes and others, using rock beats, call-and-response spoken boles and a surprisingly melodic base along the way. There are seven other Moment releases, each with Hussain, and Collection, Vol. 1, with tracks from each.

An exponent of the Mewati tradition which originated with the court musicians of the former princely states of Jodhpur and Bhopal, Pandit Jasraj has enriched his inheritance with a sweet and mellifluous voice, which is his natural endowment, and a prodigious and rigorous discipline, which is his act of will.

It was his eldest brother, Pandit Motiram, who was Pandit Jasrajs Guru, in the true sense of that word, and who imparted to the young aspirant the distinctive " Kan Gyaki" style oaf the Mewati tradition. To these assiduous schools, Pandit Jasraj adds a native imagination, sensitivity and spontaneity.

The unhurried unfolding of his alap, the tapestry of his bol-taan, his playful sargam, and the architecture of his taan patterns, make of Pandit Jasraj one of the most felicitous performers of recent times. If his classical music is engrossing, his devotional music takes the listener God Intoxicated.

Pandit Jasraj has widely traveled and performed in every major concert hall in the U.S., Europe and UK. He has inspired many in the younger generation to become musicians.

演奏阵容：
John McLaughlin - acoustic guitar
Lakshminarayana Shankar - violin
Zakir Hussain - tabla
T.H. Vinayakrm - ghatam, mridangam

印度塔布拉鼓（tabla）堪称打击之王，表演者用指和掌在一对结构精密的塔布拉鼓上，翻飞出精妙绝伦的复杂节奏。它需要表演者具有高超的演奏技巧，以及对印度古典音乐的深刻理解。而出生于印度孟买的塔布拉鼓大师Zakir Hussain（扎克尔侯赛因）无疑是当今公认的塔布拉鼓第一人，是使印度打击乐发生革命性变化的始作俑者和世界音乐界的偶像级人物。
早年，他曾师从塔布拉鼓大师Ustad Alla Rakha（乌斯塔德阿拉拉罕），被认为是塔布拉鼓的天才儿童。他从12岁起，便开始跟随着历史上最著名的印度音乐家们遍游全球。
作为一个严肃的印度古典音乐家，他不仅仅在印度受到了广泛的认同，成为“国宝”，在世界范围内也堪称顶尖，他参与的现代音乐项目不胜枚举，其中包括与Mickey Hart共同创作了格莱美获奖专辑《地球鼓》（Planet Drum）；参与制作1996年亚特兰大奥运会开幕式音乐；与纽约前卫音乐制作人Bill Laswell（比尔拉斯韦尔）共同组建了世界音乐领域内的超级乐团Tabla Beat Science；以及在著名大提琴演奏家马友友领衔的《丝绸之路》中，与他同台表演……
Zakir Hussain是个继印度西塔琴大师Ravi Shankar（拉维香卡）后，又一位把印度古典音乐成功带到世界面前，并赢得广泛尊重的伟大艺术家，也是世界音乐征服全世界的进程中的旗手人物。1999年，他从当时的美国第一夫人希拉里手中领得当年的“民族基金”，这一旨在褒奖传统艺术领域中最负声望者的荣誉。