Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)

A foundational document of Afro-Jazz and Spiritual Jazz, this album finds Pharoah Sanders leading an all-star ensemble through two side-long, exploratory pieces. The music is a powerful, modal workout that builds on a deep, spiritual groove laid down by Lonnie Liston Smith's piano and Cecil McBee's bass, over which Sanders and the horns deliver soaring, searching improvisations. The album is a quintessential example of the era's politically conscious and spiritually-charged jazz that looked to Africa and the East for inspiration.