Ustad Jari Khan has performed in Europe, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, India and Sri Lanka. Today Khan says he can tune his tabla to high classical notes, light classical notes, ghazals and geets.
When this came to his brother’s notice he allowed Khan to continue playing the tabla. He used to watch his brother practice and when his brother wouldn’t be home, Khan would practice for hours. Khan began playing the tabla when he was eight years old.
Then a member of the audience said to me, ‘You played it correctly, jaari rakhein (continue on).’ This is how my name came to be Ustad Jari Khan.” He asked me to repeat the tune but I changed the beat again. Salamat Ali thought I had made mistake but I had done it intentionally. My tabla was in tune to his voice but then I changed the beat. “It was a small gathering in 1983 and I was the tabla nawaz for Salamat Ali. Khan’s real name is Shabir Hussain but changed it many years ago. He also received the Pride of Performance Award in 2008.” Khan said that during his childhood, “Regular visitors including Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan, Ghulam Abbas, Hamid Ali Khan and Asad Amanat Ali would come to our house to listen to my brother Abdus Sattar Tari play the tabla. Much to his own and the audience’s surprise, he sang it perfectly. Khan’s passion was to sing and at the age of four he used to be called on to sing Lata Mangeshkar’s bhajan “Sanware Sanware” in front of an audience. Ustad Jari Khan is a tabla player from the Punjab gharana and a recipient of the Pride of Performance award, but the instrument was not always his forte.
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