Tabla - Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan - Berlin Music Festival (1974 ) Part 1/2

Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan (1930-1996)
The late Ustad Shaukat Hussain Khan ranked amongst the finest musicians of South Asia. Apart from his prowess over the solo repertoire, the maestros forte was his impeccable accompaniment.

Gharana: Punjab & Delhi

Teachers: Pandit Hiralal & Mian Qadir Bukhsh

James Kippen Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto wrote about Ustad Shaukat Hussain on his website as follows:

"My former doctoral student Lowell Lybarger had the good fortune to study with Shaukat Hussain Khan in Lahore. Sadly, Shaukat Hussain died of a protracted illness in January 1995, right in the middle of Lowell's fieldwork. Nonetheless, Lowell managed to learn wonderful material from this man whom everyone described as a kind and entirely dignified gentleman. Shaukat Hussain was the accompanist of choice for Pakistan's great vocalists and instrumentalists, and he always offered impeccable support. As a soloist one hears the Delhi roots of his sound mixed with a truly Panjabi sense of rhythmic complexity (he also learned from Qader Bakhsh). One can hear this complexity in the varied internal phrase lengths of pieces and in the tal structures. This excerpt is taken from a solo in Lachmi tal (cf. Lakshmi), but here it is not the 18-matra version but a 21-matra version. Shaukat Hussain plays a char-darje-ki-gat (compare this to Nabi Bakhsh's one played by Pawan Kumar Verma)."

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[munshiman]

excellent gift to tabla lovers!

thanks.

[nabeeldanish]

subhan allah khar ho app ki wah wah

[dramjadparvez]

Outstanding Tabla Player from Pakistan

[NottinghamAzn]

Why does my head move when I listen to this?

[MrDjthakur]

Ustad Shaukat Hussian Khan ji can be called the Khalifa of Punjab Gharana. He has got real classical tone , balance and dextarity. Otherwise other tablists of Pakistan play too much dayan tabla , that too is high-pitch tabla. Gone are the days in Pakistan when tablists used to play dayan of 7-8 " diameter which had a real tabla tone like pakhawaj. Even in India artists are playing high pitch tabli instead of classical Tabla .

[qadrathejutt]

amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sandipbanerjeetabla]

tHANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THIS RARE SOLO

[haidubaba]

kiya baat hy thanx for uploading ....

[blues4never]

This, from a full soul, has 23,000 views while Gaga's soulless disco-fascist "Alejandro" has 120,000,000. One could see that as an opportunity. Somehow.

[Simran747]

Greatest Tabla Player. I attended on of his concert and I stil remember, what mehfil it was. It's an honour to watch him play. Just Great. Ustad Sajjad Ali Khan is the shagird of the Meastro himself Ustad Shaukat Hussain.

[WavyMinds]

kia jaan hai hathoon main..aik aik thaap..itni clear...aisa koi nai kr sakta...

[KumarTabla]

@cassiuskhanmusic Yes Ji. Agreed. As well as the sur in his hands. Wah Ji Wah! God bless!