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Celebration of Life
Sista Viola Plummer
Sunrise February 16,1937

January 15, 2024 Sunset

December 12th Movement "D-12"

Viewing & Wake

Friday, January 26, 2024 * 4pm to 7pm

J. Foster Phillips Funeral Home

179-24 Linden Blvd, St. Albans, Queens

Funeral Service
Saturday, January 27, 2024 * 5pm to 8pm

House of the Lord Church

415 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn

*Memorial donations may be made to Harriet Tubman Fannie Lou Hamer.

Checks addressed to Harriet Tubman Fannie Lou Hamer c/o Sistas' Place

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A thrilling account of life with Sun Ra's Arkestra and New York's avant-garde jazz scenes of the 1970s-90s

In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of the New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s, including thrilling stories about the politically important Bed-Stuy venue The East and the author's tutelage under composer and long-time Archie Shepp collaborator Cal Massey. Along the way, Abdullah covers his spiritual development as a Buddhist, battles with addiction, tribulations as a father, lessons from Sun Ra and working life as an educator and cab driver.

Trumpeter and educator Ahmed Abdullah was born in Harlem in 1947. An important figure in the New York loft jazz movement, in 1972 he formed a group called Abdullah, two years before joining the Sun Ra Arkestra, with whom he pl