A Strange Celestial Road

A Strange Celestial RoadMy Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra by Ahmed Abdullah A wild and thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant garde jazz scenes of the 1970s 90s. "There are other worlds they have not told you of," Sun Ra said. The trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, a longtime member of Sun Ra's Arkestra, has journeyed through several of those extraterrestrial worlds of sound, and returned to Planet Earth to tell the tale, in this invigorating memoir of a

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discipline and religious life of the monastery—at times to devastating and comedic effect

clever replies and grounded facts

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innovation and creation

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and theatre in her own work and collaborations with her partner

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and examines the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements

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