a&r Kei Saitoh art direction, design After Hours Studio art direction, design Keiji Uyeda bass John Patitucci coordinator Kiyoko Murata coordinator [product coordination] Seita Saito design Hiroko Umezawa drums Omar Hakim engineer [assistant engineer] Colin Suzuki engineer [assistant engineer] Motohiro Noguchi engineer [mastering engineer] Koji Suzuki engineer [mobile engineer], technician [mobile technician] David Hewitt engineer [mobile engineer], technician [mobile technician] Karen Brinton engineer [mobile engineer], technician [mobile technician] Phil Gitomer engineer [p.a. sound engineer: birdland] Richard Bernard executive-producer Mikio Aoki mc [master of ceremonies: birdland] Gianni Valenti photography by John Abbott piano Hank Jones producer [assistant producer] Kyoko Aikawa producer, liner notes Yasohachi Itoh promotion [sales promotion] Hiroki Akagawa promotion [sales promotion] Kazuo Kinoshita public relations Youhei Kamiyama recorded by, mixed by Yoshihiro Suzuki Manufactured By Village Music Inc. Recorded At New Birdland, New York City, NY Phonographic Copyright (p) Village Music Inc. Copyright (c) Village Music Inc. Recorded By Sony Music Studios, Tokyo Mixed At Sony Music Studios, Tokyo Published By Zawinul Music Published By Thelonious Music Corporation Published By EMI Mills Music Inc. Published By Warner Bros. Inc. Published By Folkways Music Publishers, Inc. Published By Time Step Music Published By EMI Longitude Music Published By Atlantic Music Corp. Recorded live at Birdland, New York on July 6, 2007. John Patitucci appears courtesy of Concord Records. Eighty-Eight's is a registered trademark of Village Music Inc.
CD comes in 4-panel digisleeve with obi and 12-page booklet mostly in Japanese with some English.
Barcode only seen on obi. CD's mould SID code is missing the IFPI part. CD has two mastering SID codes.