Best tabla players today
srak...@ecs.umass.edu
I would be inclined choose the following
1. Zakir Hussain
2. Swapan Chowdhury
3. Kumar Bose
4. Sabir Khan
5. Shafaat Ahmed Khan
in that order.
Kumar Bose is a rising tabla player noted for his creative play
and harmonious accompaniment skills.He is one of Ravi Shankar's
favourites.
Parker C.
that there are many excellent players virtually unknown outside of India
who are not yet appearing on the "big labels". I would like to add two
outstanding players to the list:
1) M. Akram Khan - Ajrara gharana, living in Delhi
2) M. Sattar Khan - Punjab gharana, living in New Jersey
We also seem to forget that Shankar Ghosh is alive and well. And what
about Anindo Chatterjee who has one of the cleanest hands in the business?
Regards,
P.C.
Seattle
Taranga Ghosh
Anindo Chatterjee seems to be missing from the list. Personally
speaking I find Swapan-da's and Anindo-da's playing to be more enjoyable than
those of the others.
While Kumar Bose's thekas are, shall we say, highly confident and Ravi
Shankar gives him a lot of time at concerts -- somehow I feel that there is a
lack of sweetness in his playing.
Btw, you must be aware that this topic has been the cause for serious
rifts on the net before.
-regards,
K
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Jim Stone
Aren't we forgetting the following tabla players:
1. Jnan Prakash Ghosh (guru of Anindo Chatterjee, Shankar Ghosh,
Shyamal Bose, Samir Chatterjee, & Ajoy Chakraborty)
2. Shankar Ghosh (Father, Vikram Ghosh who also plays with Ravi
Shankar)
3. Kishen Maharaj (Guru of Kumar Bose and Sukhbinder Singh)
4. Shyamal Bose (unfortunately can't play because of the recent
heart attack but still an excellent teacher)
5. Ananda Gopal Bannerjee
6. Suresh Talawarkar
7. Nizamuddin Khan Sahib
8. Kashinath Misra
9. Bibhas Nageskar
Among the newcomers: (DO NOT FORGET THESE GUYS)
1. Vikram Ghosh
2. Tanmoy Bose
3. Subhankar Bannerjee
4. Samir Chatterjee (Living in NY)
5. Samar Saha
6. Sanjay Mukherjee
7. Rashid Ahmad Thirakawa
8. Akram Khan
9. Abdul Sattar Tari (living in NJ)
10. Mohd. Taffoo Khan (Pakistan - student of Saukat Ali Khan)
11.Sukhbinder Singh Namdhari
All the Tabla players mentioned above are accomplished
soloists as well as accompanists. I hope this will clear some of the
confusions.
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Jim Stone
On 25 Feb 1995, Taranga Ghosh wrote:
> In article <3ij67b$b...@risky.ecs.umass.edu> srak...@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>
> From: srak...@ecs.umass.edu
> Newsgroups: rec.music.indian.classical
> Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 13:36:37 GMT
> Organization: Engineering Computer Services
>
> Who are the best tabla players of our generation ?
The contemporary generation I am assuming....
> I would be inclined choose the following
This list is not complete. If your decision is based on packaged
materials that are available in the market today (in USA and UK)
which are composed of live recordings etc., your chart seems ok.
> 1.Zakir Hussain >
2. Swapan Chowdhury
> 3. Kumar Bose
> 4. Sabir Khan
> 5. Shafaat Ahmed Khan
> in that order.
> Kumar Bose is a rising tabla player noted for his creative play
> and harmonious accompaniment skills.He is one of Ravi Shankar's
> favourites.
>
>
> Anindo Chatterjee seems to be missing from the list.
Why is that ?
Personally
> speaking I find Swapan-da's and Anindo-da's playing to be more enjoyable than
> those of the others.
>
I agree. But with reservation. Anindo Chatterjee has an extremely good
hand with instrumentalists but when it comes to Vocalists I found him a
bit annoying. On the other hand, I found Swapan Choudhury, even with a
broken finger, very soothing and esthetically superior than anybody in
the list above.With vocalists a lot of Tabla players mentioned above
I had a hard time to listen to. I would prefer Samar Saha with a vocalist
anytime with the exception of Swapan Choudhury.
> While Kumar Bose's thekas are, shall we say, highly confident and Ravi
> Shankar gives him a lot of time at concerts -- somehow I feel that there is a
> lack of sweetness in his playing.
If you are used to listening to Allah rakha with ravi Shankar, I bet you,
you won't like Kumar Bose. There is a difference in "theka-dari" which
came from two distinctly different "gharanas". Give it some time you will
get used to
it. Kumar Bose is a fine tabla player - there is nothing wrong with his
"theka".
>
>
> Btw, you must be aware that this topic has been the cause for serious
> rifts on the net before.
>
I tried to be discreet ! Won't you say ?
RAJIVE
I wonder why Samta Prasad has never been mentioned as a stylist of his
own.
Regards
Rajive@aol
srak...@ecs.umass.edu
Santa Prasad is undoubtedly one of the greatest tabla players India
has produced.Unfortunately he is no more with us.The discussion started
was on tabla players of our generation.Probably Kishen Maharaj is also not
eligible or even Shankar Ghosh.
A.Pavan
Add to the list : Nayan Ghosh, son of Nikhil Ghosh, famous Tabla
Player, based in Bombay. I heard him three years back in Mpls with Rajeev
Taranath and he was quite fabulous. He is also an accomplished Sitar player.
very few can master two instruments so well. Among the younger crop,
Sukhwinder namadhari has impressed me quite a bit. He was here with Vishwa
Mohan Bhatt last April and after a long time I got to hear some solid
Benarasi thekas and gats from him. Very solid accompaniment without the
carvings for releasing those ever popular machine gun relas that we have
gotten so used to hearing. Vijay Ghate is another promising one. He is a
student of Suresh Talwalkar and accompanied Shahid Parvez and D.K.Datar
in Mpls. He tends to get a little loud and Zakiresque at times. One of Kumar
Bose's students, Kaushik Sen, is also very good. I got to hear him a lot
last Fall while he was in residence in Mpls.
One Tabla player conspicuously absent from the above list has got to
be Abdul Sattar Tari Khan, grand guru bhai of Zakir. (Both his and Zakir's
guru's (Alla Rakha) were the Shagirds of Kader Baksh of Punjab Gharana). His
playing is simply awesome. Check him out with some of Nusret Fateh Ali Khan's
classical recordings or with Mehdi Hassan's Ghazals. he was also the long time
Tabla player of Ghulam Ali but they had a split later on. IMHO, he is the
very best Tabla player for Ghazal accompaniment ever. His laggis and variations
of relas and ladis are simply magical.
More later ...
Pavan
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>>
> Who are the best tabla players of our generation ?
>> I would be inclined choose the following
>> 1. Zakir Hussain
>> 2. Swapan Chowdhury
>> 3. Kumar Bose
>> 4. Sabir Khan
>> 5. Shafaat Ahmed Khan
>> Kumar Bose [snip]
>>
>> Anindo Chatterjee [snip]
>>
> Nayan Ghosh, son of Nikhil Ghosh, famous Tabla
>Player, based in Bombay. I heard him three years back in Mpls with Rajeev
>Taranath and he was quite fabulous. He is also an accomplished Sitar player.
>very few can master two instruments so well.
I most certainly agree! He has such a musical approach to his playing. A
co-disciple of his, Aneesh Pradhan is pretty snappy, and touring a lot.
Australia is lucky to have him here about once a year.
Nayan, when are you coming back?
>One Tabla player conspicuously absent from the above list has got to
>be Abdul Sattar Tari Khan, grand guru bhai of Zakir. [snip] Check him out
>with Mehdi Hassan's Ghazals. [snip] IMHO, he is the
>very best Tabla player for Ghazal accompaniment ever. His laggis and
variations
>of relas and ladis are simply magical.
Gorgeous is a word that springs to my mind.
>More later ...
More?
>Pavan
Andrew
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