Bass – Charlie Haden (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8, 9), Jimmy Garrison (tracks: 7), Scott LaFaro (tracks: 4)
Composed By – Ornette Coleman
Cornet – Don Cherry (tracks: 1, 2, 8)
Drums – Billy Higgins (tracks: 1, 2, 8), Ed Blackwell (tracks: 3 to 7, 9)
Engineer [Mixing] – Geoffrey Haslam
Engineer [Recording] – Bones Howe (tracks: 1, 2, 8), Phil Iehle (tracks: 7), Tom Dowd (tracks: 3 to 7, 9)
Liner Notes – Martin Williams
Painting [Cover] – Ornette Coleman
Producer – Nesuhi Ertegun
Tenor Saxophone – Ornette Coleman (tracks: 7)
Trumpet – Don Cherry (tracks: 3, 5, 6, 9)
Trumpet [Pocket] – Don Cherry (tracks: 4, 7)
Notes
Recording information: #1 recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California on October 9, 1959. #2 recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California on May 22, 1959. #3, 5, 6, 9 recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, N.Y. on July 26, 1960. #4 recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, N.Y. on January 31, 1961. #7 recorded at Atlantic Studios, New York, N.Y. on March 27, 1961. #8 recorded at Radio Recorders, Hollywood, California on October 8, 1959.
Originally released in 1970 with Atlantic as SD 1572. Tracks 8 and 9 are CD bonus tracks and were previously released in Japan as part of the Atlantic LP "Ornette Coleman - To Whom Who Keeps A Record".
Tray insert: Atlantic Recording Corporation, a Warner Communications Company. This compilation ⓅⒸ 1988 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the Unites States. Printed in U.S.A.
Booklet: This compilation ⓅⒸ 1988 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the Unites States. Printed in U.S.A.
Disc imprint: This compilation Ⓟ 1988 Atlantic Recording Corporation Made in U.S.A. by WEA Manufacturing Inc.
