tracks 1-5 to 1-7, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-6 to 2-8 alto saxophone Idris Ackamoor
tracks 2-5 bass Andre St. James
tracks 2-8 bass Edward Williams III
tracks 2-1, 2-2, 2-6, 2-7 bass Heshima Mark Williams
tracks 1-2, 1-5 to 1-7, 2-1, 2-3 bass [hagstrom] Kimathi Asante
tracks 2-8 congas Babatunde Lea
tracks 1-3, 1-5 to 1-7 congas Hekaptah
tracks 2-1 congas Kenneth Nash
tracks 2-7 congas, percussion Baba Duru
tracks 2-6 drums Al Marshall
tracks 2-1, 2-2 drums Augusta Lee Collins
tracks 1-2, 1-6, 1-7, 2-3 drums Donald Robinson
tracks 2-7 drums Fred Harris
tracks 2-5 drums Geoffrey Whyte
tracks 1-3, 1-4, 1-5 drums Marcel Lytle
tracks 1-1 drums Steve Maniscoso
tracks 2-7 electric piano Art Hirahara
tracks 1-4 fiddle [mesenko] Idris Ackamoor
tracks 1-8 fiddle [one stringed goge] Idris Ackamoor
tracks 1-1 to 1-4, 1-6 to 1-8, 2-1 to 2-4 flute Margaux Simmons
tracks 1-1 french horn Steve Rumboat
tracks 1-4, 1-8, 2-2 harp [ugandan] Kimathi Asante
tracks 1-8 percussion Donald Robinson
tracks 1-4, 1-8 percussion Hekaptah
tracks 2-1, 2-2 percussion Idris Ackamoor
tracks 1-3, 2-2, 2-3 percussion Kimathi Asante
tracks 1-5, 2-3 percussion Margaux Simmons
tracks 2-2 percussion [guatemalan stick drum] Kenneth Nash
tracks 2-6 to 2-8 piano Fred Harris
tracks 1-7, 1-8 piano Jerome Saunders
tracks 1-1 piano Lester Knibbs
tracks 2-5 piano Tony Smith
tracks 2-3 saxophone [bamboophone] Idris Ackamoor
tracks 2-2 shakuhachi Idris Ackamoor
tracks 1-1 to 1-3 soprano saxophone Idris Ackamoor
tracks 1-5, 1-6 soprano saxophone Masai
tracks 2-4 talking drum, bass drum King's Drummers Of Tamale, Ghana
tracks 2-8 tenor saxophone Chico Freeman
tracks 2-5 tenor saxophone Idris Ackamoor
tracks 2-8 trumpet Steffen Kuehn
tracks 2-8 vocals Daria Nile
tracks 1-8 vocals Hekaptah
tracks 2-1 vocals Mcheza Ngoma
tracks 2-1 vocals The Pyramids