Juma Sultan

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Juma Sultan (born April 13, 1942) 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,^[1] the band Sons of Thunder, and with the Juma Sultan Band.^[2]

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^[3] 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 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^[4] 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.^[2]

Sultan appeared at the National Rock Con^[5] from July 30, 2010 – August 1, 2010.

Sultan also joined Vince Martell, Spanky & Our Gang, and Bleu Ocean at B.B. Kings on August 2, 2010, for the encore of "California Dreaming".

Juma also recorded with Archie Shepp, Noah Howard, Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, Sonny Simmons, , , , , and .

A conga player listed as Juma Santos is credited on Miles Davis's Bitches Brew. He toured and recorded with Miles Davis, Nina Simone, David Sanborn and Taj Mahal, among others. Juma Santos was an entirely different individual, and not the same person who is the subject of this article.

Selected discography[]

1. Manhattan Egos – Sonny Simmons (1969) – bass, congas
2. The Black Ark – Noah Howard (1969) – congas
3. The Cry of Love – Jimi Hendrix (1971) – percussion
4. Rainbow Bridge – Jimi Hendrix (1971) – congas, percussion
5. Things Have Got to Change - Archie Shepp (1971) - percussion on "Money Blues" (uncredited)
6. Attica Blues – Archie Shepp (1972) – percussion
7. Live at the Village Vanguard – Noah Howard (1972) - percussion
8. Jimi Hendrix(Soundtrack) (1973) - percussion
9. Crash Landing – Jimi Hendrix (1975) – percussion
10. Kwanza – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre (1977) - percussion
11. Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix album) – Jimi Hendrix (1994) – percussion
12. Voodoo Soup – Jimi Hendrix (1995) – percussion
13. First Rays of the New Rising Sun - Jimi Hendrix (1997) – percussion
14. South Saturn Delta – Jimi Hendrix (1997) - percussion
15. Live at Woodstock – Jimi Hendrix (1999) - percussion
16. The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Jimi Hendrix (2000) – percussion
17. Valleys of Neptune – Jimi Hendrix (2010) – percussion
18. The Juice Quartet Archives: Volumes 1,2, & 3 - Alan Glover (2010) - congas
19. West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology - Jimi Hendrix (2010) - percussion
20. Live at Woodstock (Deluxe Edition) – Jimi Hendrix (2010) - percussion
21. Father of Origin - Juma Sultan's Aboriginal Music Society (2011) - bass, hand drums & percussion, ahoudt, wooden flutes

Selected filmography/videography[]

1. Jimi Hendrix: The Dick Cavett Show (1969)
2. Woodstock (1970)
3. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock (1992)
4. Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock (1999)
5. Biography (TV Series) - Jimi Hendrix: The Man They Made God (2000)
6. Jimi Hendrix : Blues (Deluxe Version) (2010)
7. Biography (TV Series) - Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (2010)

References[]

External links[]

• Juma's Archive
• Juma Sultan at AllMusic
• Juma Sultan at IMDb

• Finding aid to the Juma Sultan archive at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.