A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra Abdullah Ahmed
A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra Abdullah Ahmed A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90sIn this memoir,…
Specifikacia A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra Abdullah Ahmed
A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra Abdullah Ahmed
A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90sIn this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of the New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s, including thrilling stories about the politically important Bed-Stuy venue The East and the author's tutelage under composer and long-time Archie Shepp collaborator Cal Massey. An important figure Along the way, Abdullah covers his spiritual development as a Buddhist, battles with addiction, tribulations as a father, lessons from Sun Ra and working life as an educator and cab driver.Trumpeter and educator Ahmed Abdullah was born in Harlem in 1947.
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