Album details

Original sources:
CD 1, tracks #1-6 originally issued as "East Coasting" (Bethlehem BCP6019)
CD 2, tracks #1-8 originally issued as "A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry"
(Bethlehem BCP6026)
CD 2, tracks #9-10 taken from Langston Hughes/Leonard Feather "Weary Blues" (MGM E 3697)

Personnel on "East Coasting":
Clarence Eugene Shaw (tp), Jimmy Knepper (tb), Shafi Hadi a.k.a. Curtis Porter (as, ts), Bill Evans (p), Charles Mingus (b, Dannie Richmond (d).
Recorded in New York City, on August 6, 1957

Personnel on "A Modern Jazz Symposium":
Clarence Eugene Shaw (tp on #1-3), Bill Hardman (tp on #4), Jimmy Knepper (tb), Shafi Hadi A.k.a. Curtis Porter (as, ts), Bob Hammer (p on #1-2),

Horace Parlan (p on #3-4, left hand on #2), Charles Mingus (b, voice on #1), Dannie Richmond (d), Melvin Stewart (narration on #1).
Recorded in New York City, October, 1957

Personnel on "Weary Blues":
Personnel: Jimmy Knepper (tb), Shafi Hadi A.k.a. Curtis Porter (as, ts), Horace Parlan (p), Charles Mingus (b), Kenny Dennis (d), Langston Hughes (narration).
Recorded in New York City, on March 18, 1958