art direction, design Keiji Uyeda bass Ed Howard coordinator Akira Tanaka coordinator Kiyoko Murata design Hiroko Umezawa tracks 1, 5, 8, 9 drums Billy Hart tracks 2 to 4, 6, 7 drums Victor Lewis engineer [assistant] Aya Takemura engineer [assistant] Peter Doris engineer [recording] David Baker executive-producer Mikio Aoki mastered by Koji Suzuki photography by [artist] John Abbott photography by [cover] Tadayuki Naitoh piano David Kikoski producer Yasohachi Itoh producer [assistant] Kyoko Aikawa tenor saxophone Bob Berg trumpet, flugelhorn Eddie Henderson Copyright (c) Village Records Inc. Phonographic Copyright (p) Village Records Inc. Distributed By Sony Music Recorded At Avatar Studios Designed At After Hours Studio Published By Miyako Music Published By Irving Music, Inc. Published By EMI Feist Catalog, Inc. Published By Regent Music Corp. Published By Jazz Horn Music Published By Sony/ATV Songs LLC Published By Warner Bros. Inc. Published By Bourne Co. Published By Thelonious Music Corporation Made By Sony Music Glass Mastered At Sony DADC Recorded at Avatar Studio, New York on March 13 & 14, 2002.
Eddie Henderson plays Selmer Instruments exclusively. Victor Lewis plays Pearl drums, Zildjian cymbals, uses Vic Firth sticks and mallets.