Juma Sultan


Juma Sultan is a jazz musician, most often recording as a percussionist or bass player. He may be best known for his appearance at the Woodstock festival of 1969 at Bethel, New York, playing with Jimi Hendrix. He currently plays in the African performance group Sankofa, the band Sons of Thunder, and with the Juma Sultan Band.

Career

Sultan was born in Monrovia, California on April 13, 1942. In 1969, he performed at the Woodstock festival in Hendrix's band, Gypsy Sun and Rainbows and on The Dick Cavett Show and at a special show in Harlem, New York several weeks later. He was interviewed extensively for the documentary films, Jimi Hendrix and Live at [Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album)|Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock]. He appears on approximately 12 of Jimi Hendrix' posthumous releases.
Juma Sultan's musical talents span jazz, rock, blues and spirituals throughout decades of performing, producing and recording.
In 2006, Clarkson University, in conjunction with Sultan, received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to preserve Sultan's audio and video documentation of avant garde jazz during the 1960s and 1970s. The collection may be viewed at www.jumasarchive.org.
Sultan appeared at the National Rock Con from July 30, 2010 – August 1, 2010.
Sultan also joined Vince Martell, Spanky and Our Gang, and Bleu Ocean at B.B. King's Blues Club on August 2, 2010, for the encore of "California Dreamin'".
Juma also recorded with Archie Shepp, Noah Howard, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Sonny Simmons, Daoud Haroon, Asha Nan, Emmeretta Marks, Don Moore Band, and Sankofa.

Discography

As leader or co-leader

With Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music SocietyFather of Origin
  • ''Whispers from the Archive''

As sideman

With Sam AmidonThe Following Mountain
With the Earl Cross SextetJazz of the Seventies: Sam Rivers Tuba Trio & Earl Cross Sextet
With Alan GloverThe Juice Quartet Archives Volumes 1, 2, 3
With Jimi HendrixThe Cry of Love Rainbow Bridge Soundtrack Recordings from the Film Jimi Hendrix Crash Landing Woodstock Voodoo Soup First Rays of the New Rising Sun South Saturn Delta Live at Woodstock The Jimi Hendrix Experience Valleys of Neptune West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology People, Hell and Angels
With Noah HowardThe Black Ark Live at the Village Vanguard
With Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyreKwanza
With Joe McPhee, Michael Bisio, and Fred Lonberg-HolmThe Sweet Spot
With Archie SheppThings Have Got to Change Attica Blues
With Sonny Simmons

Selected filmography/videography

  1. Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show (1969)
  2. Woodstock
  3. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock
  4. Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
  5. Biography - Jimi Hendrix: The Man They Made God
  6. Jimi Hendrix : Blues
  7. Biography - Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child