Alla Rakha
Alla Rakha , full name Allarakha Qureshi Khansaheb (born April 29, 1919 in Phagwal near Jammu , † February 3, 2000 in Mumbai ), was an Indian tabla player and composer who occasionally sang and played the harmonium .
Alla Rakha first appeared in public at the age of 12. At 15 he became a student and learned to play tabla from Kader Baksh and singing from Ashiq Ali Khan . From 1936 he made recordings for All India Radio in Delhi and later also worked as a composer and musician for the Indian film industry. Alla Rakha's main activity was classical music .
Through his appearances with Ravi Shankar at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, at the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and at the Concert for Bangladesh , where he accompanied Ravi Shankar on the tablas, classical North Indian music became known to a wider audience in the West. During this time he also played an album with jazz musicians Paul Horn and Buddy Rich ( Rich à la Rakha 1968).
Ustad Alla Rakha is one of the best tabla players of the 20th century. He helped establish the tabla as a solo instrument. He was a representative of the Punjab Gharana . His students included his three sons Zakir Hussain , Fazal Qureshi and Taufiq Qureshi also Collin Walcott and the drummer of the Grateful Dead , Mickey Hart , who admired him very much; he can also be heard on his solo album Rolling Thunder .
Web links
- Ustad Alla Rakha, 1919-2000 . ( Memento of July 12, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) tabla.com
- Rakha, Alla. In: Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular Music .
- Allarakha Foundation
- Alla Rakha in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Alla Rakha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Khan, Alla Rakha; Quereshi, Alla Rakha |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian musician (tabla) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 29, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Phagwal at Jammu |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 3, 2000 |
| Place of death | Mumbai |