| Format | Audio CD |
| Ordering Number | SFW40439 |
| Barcode | 093074043929 |
| label | Smithsonian Folkways |
| Release date | 2/4/2013 |
| Release date | 4/23/2002 |
| salesrank | 2474 |
Afghan rebâb virtuoso Ustad Mohammad Omar, who was born sometime in the early 20th century, came to the United States in 1974 to Seattle’s University of Washington as an artist-in-residence in the ethnomusicology department. On November 18th, 1974, he gave his only U.S. concert, at the university’s Meany Hall. He was accompanied by 24-year-old Zakir Hussain, a budding Indian tabla player. Hussain went on to become a world-renowned tabla virtuoso. Ustad Mohammad Omar returned to Afghanistan after his year in Seattle and died in 1980.
CD 1- 1.Shakal and naghma in the melodic mode of emen (yeman) (Ustad Mohammad Omar)
- 2.Shakal and naghma in the melodic mode of bopali (bhupali) (Ustad Mohammad Omar)
- 3.Tabla solo in the rhythmic cycle of jhaptal (10-beat cycle) (Zakir Hussein)
- 4.Shakal and naghma based on the melodic mode of pelo (pilu) (Ustad Mohammad Omar)
- 5.Keliwali in the melodic mode of kastori (Ustad Mohammad Omar)