LAST NIGHT THE MOON CAME DROPPING ITS CLOTHES IN THE STREET
Trumpet - Jon Hassel
His touring group Maarifa Street here is a core ensemble including Peter Freeman (bass, guitar, percussion), Jan Bang (live sampling), Rick Cox (guitar), Jamie Muhoberac (keyboard), Kheir-Eddine M'Kachiche (violin), Dino J.A. Deane (live sampling), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Helge Norbakken (drums), and Steve Shehan (percussion), with a few other players occasionally rotating in for a single track. The album's sleevenotes also credit Thomas Newman and Rick Cox for the title track's repeated string phrases, Eivind Aarset for "a beautiful loop" in "Blue Period" and ambient dub producer Pole for a sample used in an unspecified track. (Bringing things full circle, the composer Miles Evans-- son of Miles Davis' collaborator Gil Evans-- is credited "for the atmospherics" in "Abu Gil".)
THE HOUSE OF BLUE LIGHTS
Piano – Eddie Costa
Bass – Wendell Marshall
Drums – Paul Motian
FAREWELL TO MINGUS
Piano - Toshiko Akiyoshi
Lew Tabackin Big Band