Ali Akbar Khan, founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael and one of the greatest Indian classical musicians of all time, died Thursday night at his home in San Anselmo. He was 87. Mr.

Calling a class taught by Indian sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan a “class” doesn’t quite capture it. Nor does “taught” fully suit what Khan did, for that matter. The sessions he held for 40 years at his ...

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and ...

I had the honor of interviewing the late Indian musician Ali Akbar Khan a number of times in the more than 40 years he headed his little college of music in Marin County, teaching the 1,000-year-old ...

Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and ...

Legendary Indian musician and former UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Adjunct Professor Ali Akbar Khan died on June 18 at his home in San Anselmo, Calif. He was 87. One of the world’s most accomplished ...

Sitting cross-legged in a thickly carpeted room on the second floor of a nondescript San Rafael house, Alam Khan introduces a new song to his vocal class. "This is a late night raga," he says, ...

I'm told he made 95 albums, but I only have three of them. He composed 4,000 tunes; I've probably heard 30 of them, and yet Ali Akbar Khan brought such joy to my life. The song you're hearing is ...

World-renowned musician Ali Akbar Khan has died at the age of 87 at his home in Northern California. Khan was nominated for five Grammys and recorded more than 95 albums, including the first by an ...