art direction Hollis King tracks 4, 5 bass Arild Andersen tracks 1 to 3 bass Cecil McBee design Isabelle Wong drums Barry Altschul tracks 1 to 3 engineer Fred Ehrhardt illustration [cover] Donovan Nelson liner notes [1978] Robert Palmer tracks 1 mixed by Al Schmitt tracks 2 to 5 mixed by Baker Bigsby tracks 2 to 5 mixed by Ed Michel tracks 1 mixed by Michael Cuscuna photography by Chuck Stewart photography by Raymond Ross producer [original sessions] Ed Michel reissue producer Michael Cuscuna remastered by Erick Labson tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute, piano, composed by Sam Rivers Phonographic Copyright (p) GRP Records, Inc. Copyright (c) GRP Records, Inc. Record Company Universal Music Recorded At Battell Chapel, Yale University Recorded At Molde International Jazz Festival Remastered At MCA Music Media Studios Tracks 1-3 recorded live on November 10, 1973 at the Battel Chapel, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Tracks 4-5 recorded live on August 3, 1973, at the Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway.
The soprano saxophone section of Hues of Melanin was originally issued on Impulse Artists On Tour (AS-9264). A portion of the flute section was originally issued on The Drums (ASH-9272-3). The piano and tenor saxophone sections of Hues of Melanin and thesoprano and flute sections of Suite for Molde was originally issued on No Energy Crisis (AS-9267).
Lewis Worrell is credited as bassist on the back-cover (not in the booklet though) but this isn't correct. Worrell didn't play on these two dates.