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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 صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ ṣummun, bukmun, ʻumyun is taken from verse 18 of Surat al-Baqarah in the Qur’an (Wikipedia).

Track listing:
“Summun, Bukmun, Umyun” (Sanders) – 21:16
“Let Us Go Into The House Of The Lord” (arr. by Lonnie Liston Smith) – 17:46

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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
Nat Bettis – xylophone, yodeling, African percussion
Anthony Wiles – conga drum and African percussion

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Released: October 1970
Recorded: July 1, 1970
Studio: A & R Studios, New York, NY
Length: 39:02
Label: Impulse!
Producer: Ed Michel