The "raga" is the melodic form, but it is not just a scale, Shankar says. There are roughly 72 parent scales. And each scale has hundreds of ragas, which can be pentatonic (five notes), hexatonic (six ...

Ravi Shankar, the Indian sitarist and composer whose collaborations with Western classical musicians as well as rock stars helped foster a worldwide appreciation of India’s traditional music, died ...

Third Coast Percussion gives the L.A. premiere of Zakir Hussain's last major work, "Murmurs of Time," at the Nimoy, a final ode to the tabla great's vast range ...

The recent Tenth Decade in Concert: Live in Escondido DVD is a remarkable testament to just how strong Ravi Shankar's playing remained at the age of 91. The concert was filmed on October 11, 2011, and ...

On Sept. 28, 2011, Ravi Shankar was 91 and frail when he took the stage for an unforgettable night in Los Angeles. With Shankar’s death at 92 on Tuesday, we share the review of that performance from ...

When I was a child growing up in the 1980s, Ravi Shankar was like a kindly uncle to me. I knew him only through his records; his burly, smiling face adorned the covers of the many Shankar LPs and ...

The world mourned the death this week of Indian maestro Ravi Shankar, whose name became synonymous with the sitar. Tributes eulogized Shankar as the great connector of the East and West who'd ...

“What Andrés Segovia is to the guitar, what Pablo Casals is to the cello, so Ravi Shankar is to the sitar. The master. The one who you might say revolutionized the instrument.” This is how Chicago ...

The new documentary about George Harrison, which airs this week on HBO, is garnering praise from across the media landscape (“a significant and substantially new take on the band and its most elusive ...

Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected ...

A real treat for fans of legendary sitarist Ravi Shankar, this is not only a live recording of a rare morning concert, but also an "at home" performance Shankar did for some special friends at his ...