The Simpsons will feature a deaf actor on Sunday for the first time in its 722-episode run.

The new episode, The Sound of Bleeding Gums, focuses on Lisa Simpson, who discovers that her hero and favorite musician, the late saxophonist Bleeding Gums Murphy, has a son whos deaf and needs a cochlear implant.

Bleeding Gums (voiced primarily by Ron Taylor) died in the Season Six episode Round Springfield , which aired in 1995. His son, Monk, will be voiced by John Autry II.