Pharoah Sanders - Summun Bukmun Umyun

Recorded at A & R Studios in New York City on July 1, 1970, Pharoah Sanders’ album Deaf Dumb Blind (in Arabic “Summun Bukmun Umyun", was released on Impulse! Records that same year. It features the leader along with fellow stars Woody Shaw, Gary Bartz and Lonnie Liston Smith. The album received a **** rating on AllMusic, with reviewer Thom Jurek stating that this is “a stunningly beautiful and contemplative work that showcases how intrinsic melodic phrasing and drones were to Sanders at the time. This album is a joyful noise made in the direction of the divine, and we can feel it through the speakers, down in the place that scares us.”

Tracklist:

Side 1

1. SUMMUN BUKMUN UMYUN (Pharoah Sanders) 21:24

Side 2

1. LET US GO INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD (Adapted by Lonnie Liston Smith) 17:52

Personnel:

PHAROAH SANDERS, soprano saxophone, cow horn, bells, tritone, whistle, cowbells, wood flute, thumb piano, percussion. 

WOODY SHAW, trumpet,maracas, yodeling, and percussion. 

GARY BARTZ, alto saxophone, bells, cowbell, shakers, and percussion. LONNIE LISTON SMITH, piano, cowbell, thumb piano, and percussion. CECIL McBEE, bass.

CLIFFORD JARVIS, drums.

NATHANIEL BETTIS, bylophone, yodeling, and African percussion; 

ANTHONY WILES, conga drum and African percussion. 

Recorded at A&R Studios, New York City, 1 July, 1970. 

Produced by Ed Michel 

Engineering by Dave Green, with Dixon Van Winkle.

Photography by Chuck Stewart 

Designed by Wallace Caldwell