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Juma Sultan: musician, composer, archivist, and upstanding citizen of Planet Earth and Beyond. Notable musical collaborations include Sonny Simmons, James “Blood” Ulmer, Pharaoh Sanders, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Sam Rivers, and many more. He is most widely known for his deep association with Jimi Hendrix, famously closing out the Woodstock Festival and appearing on numerous posthumous Hendrix releases.

Loft Jazz Archive

Juma’s historical significance is most relevant in the context of the avant garde jazz movement in New York City during the ’60’s and 70’s that has come to be known as the Loft Jazz Era.

During that period, he amassed the largest and most significant archive of tape recordings and ephemera related to the Loft Jazz period. Digitization and cataloging of this culturally important archive is an ongoing project.

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Aboriginal Music Society

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Juma currently performs with a wide variety of artists. His band, the Aboriginal Music Society, has been re-established as an active project, playing original compositions and jazz standards in ensembles ranging from trio to ten-piece, in a long-form improvisational style that is best described by the moniker “World-Beat Garage Jazz”.
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Aboriginal Music Society - Sundance

Full length LP available now on Bandcamp

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Heavens Research Unlimited

Heavens Research Unlimited is Juma’s record label featuring a mix of studio recordings with various collaborators, select archival releases, and new music by affiliated artists.

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Videos

Juma Sultan’s Aboriginal Music Society – “Shakin’ the Blues” – Live @ Avalon Lounge – 11/18/22
AMS – Circles @ White Feather Farm
AMS – Maliki Malasha (excerpt) @ White Feather Farm
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Your contribution will be put toward any and all of our myriad endeavors: creating new music, offering performances, digitizing the Loft Jazz Archive, producing podcasts and videos, etc…

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