Ahmed Abdullah memoir forthcoming from Blank Forms

[Joe]

"Richly illustrated with seventy-two pages of photographs and posters from Adger Cowans, Marilyn Nance, Val Wilmer, and others, A Strange Celestial Road interweaves the author’s own moving story—his battles with addiction, spiritual development, and life as a working class performer—with enthralling tales of tutelage under Cal Massey, collaborations with the likes of Ed Blackwell, Marion Brown, and Andrew Cyrille, and profound, occasionally confounding, mentorship by Sun Ra."

More info here: https://www.blankforms.org/publications/ahmed-abdullah-a-strange-celestial-road

[Rooster_Ties]

Could be very interesting. Abdullah was kind enough to autograph my Purple Night liners the one time I got to see Ra himself with the Arkestra up in Chicago at the Cubby Bear in in Wrigleyville in 1999 (the beginning of my junior year in college, when I was 21).

Got June Tyson’s “Jane Hancock” too, along with a couple other Arkestra members — all very gracious and approachable (June especially — an extraordinarily classy woman).

[kh1958]

4 hours ago, Rooster_Ties said:

Could be very interesting. Abdullah was kind enough to autograph my Purple Night liners the one time I got to see Ra himself with the Arkestra up in Chicago at the Cubby Bear in in Wrigleyville in 1999 (the beginning of my junior year in college, when I was 21).

Got June Tyson’s “Jane Hancock” too, along with a couple other Arkestra members — all very gracious and approachable (June especially — an extraordinarily classy woman).

1989? June Tyson died in 1992 and Ra in 1993.