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110 Years of Sun Ra: Ahmed Abdullah & Monique Ngozi Nri

PHILADELPHIA, 26.05.24

With Ahmed Abdullah

Focus on Sun Ra

A conversation with American jazz musician and trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah, and Abdullah's wife Monique Ngozi Nri, writer, poet and vocalist.

Abdullah shares memories of his life and music, and recounts stories from his time in the Sun Ra Arkestra. He and Nri explore Sun Ra's work and how, through the music of Sun Ra, they met in London in 1994.

Tracklist

  • 0:03:31
    Dinah Washington 
    I've Got You Under My Skin
  • 0:04:16
    Jimmy Reed 
    Left Handed Woman
  • 0:08:10
    Dinah Washington 
    Alone Together
  • Jackie Mclean
    Live At Slugs
  • Sun Ra
    Live At Slugs
  • Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra 
    We Travel The Space Ways
  • Sun Ra
    Live 1975
  • Mcoy Tyner
    Contemporary Focus
  • Sun Ra
    Live At Montreux
  • Sun Ra 
    The Mystery Of Two