He performed and recorded with a number of prominent musicians, including Nicky Hopkins, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner, Steve Miller, Los Lobos, Violent Femmes, Don Henley, Hamza El Din, Jennifer Warnes, David Broza, Paco de Lucía, Santana, Brian Ritchie, Tony Trischka, Leftover Salmon, Quicksilver Messenger Service, John Hiatt, Warren Zevon, Ruben Blades, Lou Reed, The Blind Boys of Alabama, 7 Walkers (Bill Kreutzmann, Papa Mali, George Porter Jr., Matt Hubbard), and David Lindley.

[7] He returned occasionally to Jordan; Naser remembered that his grandfather "would grind and roast coffee, playing these rhythms, singing and chanting, the villagers would come up and he’d recite poetry.

"[8] Naser dipped into the nightlife of Manhattan, New York by taking the train to hear Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in the beatnik atmosphere of the 1960s, and he heard the Afro-Cuban jazz and Latin music developing in the Lower East Side.

"[8] Naser broke into the Los Angeles music scene by impressing Lebanese singer Samira Tewfik with his unusual rhythmic style in July 1970 when she was auditioning musicians for an appearance in Pasadena, California.

Hani also led intensive workshops titled "The Healing Powers of Rhythm and Music" at the Esalen Institute and other places, and formed a band with Walfredo Reyes Jr., Armand Sabal-Lecco, and Craig Eastman.

His longtime partner Elise Mallove wrote an obituary for The Canyon Chronicle, saying he died "peacefuly" but that his "heart could not bear the pain" of family members killed at their home by a gunman in Henderson, Nevada, on November 3, two weeks earlier.