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Badal Roy (1939–2022), pioneering tabla player
Badal Roy was a pioneering Indian tabla player who played with jazz legends Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. Badal Roy (born Amarenda Roy Chowdhury) moved from East Pakistan to New York City in 1968 to work on a PhD program in statistics. He learned tabla from an uncle and had taken lessons from renowned tabla player Alla Rakha.