Master trumpeter, Ahmed Abdullah, recounts his 2 decades of touring with the great Jazz musician Sun Ra in his new memoir, A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra. The book is a moving autobiography that also describes a unique time in the history of Jazz, including the loft Jazz scene, traveling the world - with a special focus on performances at The East in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.

We celebrated Ahmed's book and music at this reading, book party and performance.

Personnel:

Ahmed Abdullah, trumpet, flugelhorn & vocals

Don Chapman, saxophone

Norbert Marius, bass

George Gray, percussion

Monique Ngozi Nri, vocalist/poet.

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