Credits

Amiri Baraka: Essay
Ishmael Reed: Author
Ronald Shannon Jackson: Drums, Interviewee
Alan Silva: Interviewee
Albert Ayler: Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Vocals
Beaver Harris: Drums, Interviewee
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie: Drums
Burton Greene: Interviewee, Piano
Cecil Taylor: Author, Interviewee, Piano
Dave Burrell: Piano
Don Cherry: Author, Cornet, Interviewee
Donald Ayler: Trumpet
Frank Wright: Tenor Saxophone
Gary Peacock: Bass, Interviewee
Henry Grimes: Interviewee
Illinois Jacquet: Interviewee
Jimmy Lyons: Alto Saxophone
Marzette Watts: Interviewee
Milford Graves: Drums, Interviewee
Perry Robinson: Interviewee
Pharoah Sanders: Tenor Saxophone
Rashied Ali: Drums, Interviewee
Sirone: Bass
Steve Lacy: Interviewee
Sunny Murray: Drums
Tom Scott: Interviewee
Roswell Rudd: Interviewee
Harold Budd: Interviewee
Ted Daniel: Interviewee
Paul Haines: Author, Interviewee
Ben Young: Mastering, Remastering, Transfers, Editor
Robert Frank: Interviewee
Richard Anthony Davis: Bass
John d'Agostino: Interviewee
Kevin Reeves: Mastering
Susan Archie: Director, Layout Design, Production Design
Tom Greenwood: Liner Notes, Research, Editor
Bill Airey Smith: Photography
Muhammad Ali: Drums
Richard G. Johnson: Piano
Valerie Wilmer: Essay, Photography
Joe Lizzi: Mastering
Phil Schaap: Interviewee
Carlos Kase: Research, Text Editor, Editor
Jan Persson: Photography
Artie Jenkins: Interviewee
Mich Goldman: Interviewer
Cynthia Sesso: Consultant, Photo Research
Raymond Ross: Photography
Kiyoshi "Boxman" Koyama: Interviewer
Frederick Lyman: Interviewee
Allen Blairman: Drums
Bill Folwell: Bass, Electric Bass
Birger Jørgensen: Interviewer
Call Cobbs: Piano, RMI Rock-si-chord
Carl Woideck: Essay, Photography
Chris Capers: Trumpet
Daniel Caux: Essay, Interviewer
Hans Harzheim: Photography
Heikki Annala: Bass
Joel Freedman: Interviewee
Larry Neal: Author
Martti Äijänen: Drums
Mary Maria Parks: Tambourine, Vocals, Handclaps
Mocqui Cherry: Interviewee
Peter Bergman: Introduction
Peter Niklas Wilson: Interviewer
Philippe Gras: Photography
Roger Blank: Drums
Steve Tintweiss: Bass
Ton Van Wageningen: Photography
Virginia Bostic: Vocals