Ustad Alla Rakha Qureshi (29 April 1919 – 3 February 2000), mononymously known as Alla Rakha, was an Indian tabla player who specialised in Hindustani classical music. He was a frequent accompanist of sitar player Pandit Ravi Shankar and was largely responsible for introducing tabla to the Western audience. Alla Rakha Khan Qureshi was born on 29 April 1919 in Ghagwal, a village in the Jammu Province of the princely kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir under British Raj; today... meer
