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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 creative music, while capturing radical artistic and political developments across Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan in the 1970s and ’80s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRichly illustrated with more than fifty pages of photographs and posters from Adger Cowans, Marilyn Nance, Val Wilmer, and others, \u003cem\u003eA Strange Celestial Road\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eOriginally written in the 1990s with the help of Nuyorican poet Louis Reyes Rivera and published now for the first time, with a foreword by Salim Washington, \u003cem\u003eA Strange Celestial Road \u003c\/em\u003eis\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003enot only an autobiography, but a history of a remarkable and under-documented movement in music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/form\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Terranova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55473231167830,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1042\/8622\/4726\/files\/HookBook-scaled.jpg?v=1790180997","url":"https:\/\/terrranova.com\/products\/hook-book","provider":"Terranova","version":"1.0","type":"link"}