tracks 14 to 16 alto saxophone Bob Debellis
tracks 14 to 16 bass guitar Booker King
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 bass guitar Hiroshi Watanabe
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 bass guitar Maki Kitada
tracks 14 to 16 bass saxophone Jim Hartog
co-producer Shiro Sasaki
co-producer Toshiaki Ota
tracks 1 to 11, 13 to 18 coordinator Cherry Kaoru Hulsey
tracks 12 coordinator Chiyo Sagae
cover Toshihiro Kawamoto
directed by Yukako Inoue
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 drums Akira Sotoyama
tracks 14 to 16 drums Bobby Previte
tracks 14 to 16 drums Jim Mussen
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 drums Yasuo Sano
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 flute Hideyo Takakuwa
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 flute Kazuhiro Iwasa
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 flute Mika Hayashi
tracks 12 guitar Pierre Bensusan
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 guitar Tsuneo Imahori
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 harmonica Nobuo Yagi
illustration Isam Imakake
tracks 18 mastered by Doppio YABU
tracks 1 to 17 mastered by George Marino
music by, arranged by, producer Yoko Kanno
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 percussion Ikuo Kakehashi
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 percussion Mataro Misawa
tracks 12 percussion Sydney Thiam
tracks 14 to 16 piano Mark Soskin
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 piano, keyboards Yoko Kanno
product manager Koh Yamashita
product manager Shigeki Imai
product manager Shosei Ito
product manager Tetsuya Yamada
tracks 12 recorded by, mixed by Christophe Dupouy
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 recorded by, mixed by Masashi Yabuhara
tracks 14 to 16 recorded by, mixed by Rudy Van Gelder
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 saxophone Masato Honda
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 saxophone Osamu Koike
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 saxophone Shigeo Fuchino
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 saxophone Takuo Yamamoto
sleeve Kazuhisa Fujita
sleeve Misa Murakami
tracks 14 to 16 soprano saxophone Steve Wilson
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 synthesizer Keishi Urata
tracks 12 technician [assisted by] Jean-Baptiste Millet
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 technician [assisted by] Mana Nagahiro
tracks 14 to 16 technician [assisted by] Maureen Sickler
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 technician [assisted by] Miyuki Ishimoto
tracks 12 technician [assisted by] Yann Arnaud
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 technician [assisted by] Yasuhiro Tsurusaki
tracks 14 to 16 tenor saxophone Paul Shapiro
tracks 14 to 16 trombone Joshua Roseman
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 trombone Junko Yamashiro
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 trombone Masanori Hirahara
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 trombone Yoichi Murata
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 trumpet Koji Nishimura
tracks 14 to 16 trumpet Steven Berstein
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 trumpet Toshio Araki
tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, 17 trumpet Yusuke Hayashi
Tracks 14 to 16 recorded at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey.

Tracks 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 13, and 17 recorded at Victor Studio, Z'd Studio, and SoundCityStudio in Tokyo.

Track 12 recorded at Plus XXXstudio in Paris.