To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

How to transfigure the Wikipedia

Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? We have created a browser extension. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology.

Try it — you can delete it anytime.

Install in 5 seconds
4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
Languages
Recent
Show all languages
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
Great Wikipedia has got greater.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Ahmed Abdullah

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the Egyptian swimmer, see Ahmed Abdullah (swimmer). For the Pakistani cricketer, see Ahmed Safi Abdullah.

Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland; May 10, 1946)[1] is an American jazz trumpeter who was a prominent member of Sun Ra's band.[2]

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/2
    Views:
    1 190
    357
  • Far Be It! Allah's Messenger - Ahmed Abdullah ᴴᴰ
  • Days of Arts and Ideas - WeDaPeoples Cabaret, Burnt Sugar with Ahmed Abdullah | Eugene Lang College

Transcription

Biography

He began playing the trumpet at age 13 in his native New York City. One of the first groups he performed with was the Master Brotherhood.[1] By the 1970s, he was performing in New York's loft scene with various groups including the Melodic Art-Tet (Charles Brackeen, Roger Blank and Ronnie Boykins, later William Parker) and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra.[1] Ahmed Abdullah formed his own band in 1972, and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1975, working there on and off until 1993, when Sun Ra died.[1] He stayed on with the Arkestra after Sun Ra's demise working under the leadership of John Gilmore and then Marshall Allen. During his time with the Arkestra, Abdullah participated in more than 25 recordings and traveled extensively with Sun Ra.[3][4] After leaving the Arkestra, Abdullah wrote memoirs of his time with that organization. In 2002, Ahmed began teaching a course on the Music and Philosophy of Sun Ra at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

Ahmed Abdullah's own bands have at times been called Abdullah, the Solomonic Unit, Diaspora and Ebonic Tones. In 1995, Ahmed and his wife, Monique Ngozi Nri, formed Melchizedek Music Productions (MMP), to breathe new life into the Sun Ra Arkestra. In 1998. Ahmed was asked to be the music director of Sistas' Place. and has helped to make that institution an historic landmark in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. In 2019, Abdullah and his band Diaspora collaborated with former Sun Ra comrade Francisco Mora Catlett's ensemble AfroHORN to form Diaspora Meets AfroHORN, and create the first recording for Melchizedek Music Productions: Jazz: A Music of the Spirit / Out of Sistas' Place.[5]

In 2023, Blank Forms Editions published A Strange Celestial Road: My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra, recounting Abdullah's participation in the Arkestra over a span of 20 years.[6][7]

Discography

As leader

As sideman

With Sun Ra

With Billy Bang

With Arthur Blythe

With Dennis González

With The Group (Abdullah, Marion Brown, Billy Bang, Sirone, Fred Hopkins, Andrew Cyrille)

With the Melodic Art-Tet (Abdullah, Charles Brackeen, William Parker, Roger Blank, Tony Waters)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 27. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  2. ^ "Ahmed Abdullah | Biography & History". AllMusic. Retrieved August 12, 2021.
  3. ^ Ahmed Abdullah with Louis Reyes Rivera. "Excerpts from A Strange Celestial Road (Traveling the Spaceways)", Ahmedian.com; accessed March 28, 2015
  4. ^ Kemp, Larry (14 September 2018). Current Jazz Trumpet Legends. Dorrance Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4809-7727-3 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Ahmed Abdullah discusses new album by Diaspora Meets AfroHORN". The Wire. March 2020. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
  6. ^ "Ahmed Abdullah: A Strange Celestial Road". Blank Forms. Retrieved December 23, 2023.
  7. ^ Gottschalk, Kurt (December 2023). "In Print" (PDF). The New York City Jazz Record. p. 37.

External links

This page was last edited on 3 March 2024, at 17:12
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.
Contact WIKI 2
Introduction
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy