He learnt the tabla performing art for years from Ustad Habeebuddin Khan, the doyen of the Ajrada gharana.
Pandit Saxena was the first drummer in India to have worked as professor of tabla at a centre of higher learning.
He retired from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, in 1983 as head of its music department, after serving the institution for thirty-three years.
In his younger days (1945-1995), he participated in most of the major music conferences of the country as a tabla accompanist to many front-ranking musicians and dancers.
So many disciples like Late Pandit Madhukar Gaurav, Pandit Pushkar raj Shridhar, Pandit Ravindra Nikte, Pandit Kaluram Bhanvariya, and many more of first generation stallwords and then Dr. Anil Gandhi, Dr. Ajay Ashtaputre, Shri Chintan Patel, Shri Raju Joshi, Dr. Kedar Mukadam, Shri Nandkishor Date and many more which are reputed artist and performer, Academicians Many Number of students from Mauritius, Shri Lanka Nepal And Bangladesh also learned from him,, Mr. Dirpoul, Shri Niti ranjan Biswas, are some of the names He was the first guru of tabla player Pandit Divyang Vakil.