Track listing

1. "Power" – 4:37
2. "Lonnie's Lament" (John Coltrane
   John Coltrane
   John William Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes in jazz and later was at the forefront of free jazz...
   
   ) – 5:39
3. "Boomerang" – 5:49
4. "Nikki's Groove" – 3:28
5. "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
   Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
   "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a jazz standard composed by Charles Mingus originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album Mingus Ah Um. Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session...
   
   " (Charles Mingus
   Charles Mingus
   Charles Mingus Jr. was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and civil rights activist.Mingus's compositions retained the hot and soulful feel of hard bop and drew heavily from black gospel music while sometimes drawing on elements of Third stream, free jazz, and classical music...
   
   ) – 3:34
6. "Ozell (Interlude 1)" – 0:48
7. "Burning Down The House" (David Byrne
   David Byrne (musician)
   David Byrne is a musician and artist, best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography,...
   
   , Jerry Harrison
   Jerry Harrison
   Jerry Harrison is an American songwriter, musician and producer...
   
   , Chris Frantz
   Chris Frantz
   Chris Frantz is an American musician and record producer. He was the drummer for both Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club.-Career:...
   
   , Tina Weymouth
   Tina Weymouth
   Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club .-Profile:Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. Weymouth was a cheerleader in high school...
   
   ) – 6:54
8. "It's Me Again" – 6:05
9. "Cousin John" – 4:42
10. "Ozell (Interlude 2)" – 0:39
11. "3 Deuces" – 5:51
12. "Red Baron" (Billy Cobham
    Billy Cobham
    William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
    
    ) – 6:38
13. "Ozell (Interlude 3)" – 1:01
14. "Your Amazing Grace" – 7:43
15. "Boomerang Reprise" – 1:54

Personnel

• Poogie Bell – Drums
• Hiram Bullock
  Hiram Bullock
  Hiram Law Bullock was an American jazz funk and jazz fusion guitarist.He was born in Osaka, Japan to African American parents serving in the U.S. Military. At the age of two he returned to Baltimore, Maryland with his parents, and quickly showed a prodigious musical talent...
  
    – Guitar
• Mino Cinelu
  Mino Cinelu
  Mino Cinelu is a French musician. He plays multiple instruments. He is a composer, programmer and producer; and is most often associated primarily for his work as a jazz percussionist.-Biography:Cinelu was born in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine...
  
    – Percussion
• Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vinnie Colaiuta
  Vincent Colaiuta is an American drummer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Republic, Pennsylvania, he began playing drums as a child and received his first full drum kit from his parents at the age of 14...
  
    – Drums on "It's Me Again"
• Larry Corbett – Cello
• Joel Derouin – Violin
• Djavan
  Djavan
  Djavan is a Brazilian singer/songwriter, Djavan combines traditional Brazilian rhythms with popular music drawn from the Americas, Europe and Africa. He can arguably be categorized in any of the following musical genres: Música Popular Brasileira , samba, or Latin dance...
  
    – Vocals, Scat
• Matt Funes – Viola
• Kenny Garrett
  Kenny Garrett
  Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post bop jazz saxophonist and flautist who gained fame in his youth as a member of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and of Miles Davis's band. He has since pursued a critically acclaimed solo career...
  
    – Sax (Alto)
• Herbie Hancock
  Herbie Hancock
  Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock is an American pianist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis's "second great quintet," Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the "post-bop" sound...
  
    – Piano
• David Isaac – Triangle, Producer, Overdubs, Cowbell, Mixing, Co-Producer, Water Effects
• Paul Jackson, Jr.
  Paul Jackson, Jr.
  Paul Jackson, Jr. is a fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musician...
  
    – Guitar (Acoustic)
• Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan
  Chaka Khan , frequently known as the Queen of Funk, is a 10-time Grammy Award winning American singer-songwriter who gained fame in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band Rufus. While still a member of the group in 1978, Khan embarked on a successful solo career...
  
    – Vocals
• Hubert Laws
  Hubert Laws
  Hubert Laws is an American flutist and saxophonist with a 40+ year career in jazz, classical, and other music genres. Alongside Herbie Mann, Laws is probably the most recognized and respected jazz flutist...
  
    – Flute, Soloist
• Branford Marsalis
  Branford Marsalis
  Branford Marsalis is an American saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque.-Biography:Marsalis was born...
  
    – Sax (Soprano), Soloist
• Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller is an American jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Miller is best known as a bassist, working with trumpeter Miles Davis, singer Luther Vandross, and saxophonist David Sanborn, as well as maintaining a prolific solo career...
  
    – Synthesizer, Bass, Guitar (Bass), Vocals, Producer, Engineer, Executive Producer, Vocoder, Drum Programming, Wurlitzer
• Maceo Parker
  Maceo Parker
  Maceo Parker is an American funk and soul jazz saxophonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s, as well as Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970s. Parker was a prominent soloist on many of Brown's hit recordings, and a key part of his band, playing alto, tenor and baritone saxophones...
  
    – Sax (Alto), Soloist
• Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq
  Raphael Saadiq is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. Saadiq has been a standard bearer for "old school" R&B since his early days as a member of the multiplatinum group Tony! Toni! Toné! He also produced songs of such artists as TLC, Joss Stone, D'Angelo, Mary J...
  
    – Vocals on "Boomerang"
• Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter
  Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.He is generally acknowledged to be jazz's greatest living composer, and many of his compositions have become standards...
  
    – Sax (Soprano)
• Leroy Taylor – Synthesizer Bass
• Fred Wesley
  Fred Wesley
  Fred Wesley is an American jazz and funk trombonist, best known for his work with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
    – Trombone
• Lenny White
  Lenny White
  Leonard White III, better known as Lenny White is an American jazz fusion drummer, who is best known for playing in Chick Corea's Return to Forever.-Biography:...
  
    – Percussion, Synthesizer Bass
• Bernard Wright
  Bernard Wright
  Bernard Wright is an American funk and jazz keyboardist who began his career as a session musician and later released several solo albums in the 1980s....
  
  – Organ, Fender Rhodes

Production

• Ray Bardani – Mixing
• David Isaac – Engineer and Mix Engineer
• Enrico DePaoli – Engineer
• Jack Frisch – Art Direction, Design
• Richard Furch – Assistant Engineer
• Bibi Green – Production Coordination
• Charles Harrison – String Copyist, String Transcription
• Khaliq-O-Vision – Engineer
• Paul Mitchell – Engineer
• Malcolm Pollack – Engineer