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Badal Roy (Bangla: বাদল রায়) (born Amerendra Roy Choudhury in Bangladesh, 1945) is a tabla player and percussionist known for his work in jazz, cross-cultural music, and experimental music.

Roy emigrated to New York City in 1968, working as a busboy and waiter in various Indian restaurants. Soon, however, he began performing with Steve Gorn at a restaurant called Raga, eventually attracting the attention of Miles Davis. Davis invited Roy to join his group, and Roy's playing is documented on Davis's On the Corner album. Roy subsequently performed and recorded with many leading jazz musicians, including Davis, Dave Liebman, and Ornette Coleman. In the 1990s Roy began performing with the Brazilian guitar duo Duofel.

Roy is essentially self-taught, and consequently his playing is freer than that of many other tabla players, who adhere more strictly to the tala system of Indian rhythm. He often plays a set of up to five tabla (tuned to different pitches) at a time, which he plays melodically as well as rhythmically.

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