Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)

Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
Studio album by Pharoah Sanders
Released	1970
Recorded	July 1, 1970
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:02
Label	Impulse! Records
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Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun) is an album by the American jazz saxophonist Pharoah Sanders. It was recorded at A & R Studios in New York City on July 1, 1970, and released on Impulse Records in the same year. The album's title is bilingual: "Summun Bukmun Umyun" is Arabic for "Deaf Dumb Blind".

The phrase "Summun, Bukmun, Umyun" is taken from the Sura Bakara of the Qur'an. According to the liner notes, the album is "predicated on spiritual truths and to the future enlightenment of El Kafirun or The Rejectors of Faith (non-believers)".

The performances on the album are strongly influenced by the music of Africa.

Track listing

1. "Summun, Bukmun, Umyun" (Sanders) – 21:16
2. "Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord" (arr. by Lonnie Liston Smith) – 17:46

Personnel

• Pharoah Sanders – soprano saxophone, cow horn, bells, tritone whistle, cowbells, wood flute, thumb piano, percussion
• Woody Shaw – trumpet, maracas, yodeling, percussion
• Gary Bartz – alto saxophone, bells, cowbell, shakers, percussion
• Lonnie Liston Smith – piano, cowbell, thumb piano, percussion
• Cecil McBee – bass
• Clifford Jarvis – drums
• Nathaniel Bettis – bylophone, yodeling, African percussion
• Anthony Wiles – conga drum and African percussion

See also

• 1970 in music