Ahmed Abdullah: A Strange Celestial Road Format:Hardcover

Ahmed Abdullah: A Strange Celestial Road Format:HardcoverIn this captivating memoir, the first full length account of life in the Arkestra by any of its members, Harlem born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts two decades of traveling the spaceways with the inimitable composer, pianist, and big band leader Sun Ra. Gigging everywhere from the legendary Bed Stuy venue the East to the National Stadium in Lagos, Abdullah paints a vivid picture of the rise of loft jazz and the influence of Pan Africanism on

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psychoacoustic phenomena

I can hear each individual sound of the performance

moving from New York to California to raise her son

2007) is an exercise in listening

But before the intoxicating overtones of the Strumming Music for which he is best known

a tale of gargoyles coming to life and breeding with humans in a post-apocalyptic Notre Dame

then the composer’s wife

A self-proclaimed “living corpse

and controversially

Licht is a contributing music editor at BOMB magazine and his essays and reviews have appeared in Artforum

and creaturely conflict (“Crystal Tears” and “Spin The Animal Dial”)