Percussionist

First assembled for an SFJAZZ performance during the 2017-18 Season, this historic convergence of instrumental giants returns for night four of Dave Holland’s residency, showcasing the singular telepathy they’ve forged over the last seven years and memorialized on their 2019 Edition Records debut Good Hope.

“One of the most studied (and copied) saxophonists on the planet,” (DownBeat) Chris Potter is a standard bearer of modern jazz, a restless bandleader, SFJAZZ Collective musical director, and collaborator with Pat Metheny, Paul Motian, Herbie Hancock, Jim Hall, and the Mingus Big Band.

Since arriving in the Bay Area as a celebrated teenage prodigy trained by his legendary father Alla Rakha, Zakir Hussain has brought the rhythmic sophistication of North Indian classical music into a diverse array of settings from Shakti to Mickey Hart’s Planet Drum, blazing a mind-boggling array of musical trails.

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Dave Holland W/ Chris Potter, & Zakir Hussain

SFJAZZ Center

Prepare to be mesmerized when four virtuosi present a concert based on their latest album As We Speak. Tabla player Zakir Hussain explains “When we are performing on stage, in composing mode or creating mode, we are basically having a conversation. So the music emerges as we speak.”

Special Event As We Speak with Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer bass, Zakir Hussain tabla, and Rakesh Chaurasia bansuri

Aspen Meadows Resort

The Grammy Award–winning Third Coast Percussion performs an entire concert of New York premieres by four singular composers. Featured among them is a work by tabla master and global icon Zakir Hussain, who performs alongside the group in a must-hear moment for percussion fans. The program also features new music by Jlin, a 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her previous collaboration with Third Coast Percussion (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall); Armenian jazz pianist and composer Tigran Hamasyan; and New York City’s own Jessie Montgomery, whose music is acclaimed as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” (The Washington Post).

Third Coast Percussion

Carnegie Hall

Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain is one of India’s reigning cultural ambassadors, renowned for his joyful and captivating virtuosity. He returns with his long-running Masters of Percussion program, a gathering of great drummers and percussionists from numerous world traditions. “He’s a fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor, devoted to exuberant play” (The New York Times).

Zakir Hussain

Percussionist

Events

May 26, 2024

Dave Holland W/ Chris Potter, & Zakir Hussain · San Francisco Jazz

Jul 17, 2024

Special Event As We Speak with Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer bass, Zakir Hussain tabla, and Rakesh Chaurasia bansuri · Aspen Music Festival

Feb 27, 2025

Third Coast Percussion · Carnegie Hall

Apr 18, 2025

Zakir Hussain & the Masters of Percussion · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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