A Strange Celestial Road
A Strange Celestial Road
£25.00
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York's loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan from the 1970s to the 1990s, including exciting stories about the important Bed-Stuy venue, The East, and the author's tutelage under composer and longtime Archie Shepp collaborator Cal Massey. Along the way, Abdullah covers his spiritual development as a Buddhist, his struggles with addiction, tribulations as a father, lessons from Sun Ra, and work life as an educator and taxi driver.
Trumpeter and educator Ahmed Abdullah was born in Harlem in 1947. An important figure in the New York loft jazz movement, in 1972 he formed a group called Abdullah, two years before joining Sun Ra Arkestra, with whom he played for more than 20 years. . He is a founding member of the bands Melodic Art-Tet, The Group and NAM, and the Central Brooklyn Jazz Consortium. Abdullah is the music director of Sistas' Place in Brooklyn and teaches music at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan and at an elementary school in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.
English language
16x21cm
512 pages
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