Track listing

1. "Wade in the Water" (Traditional) - 3:50 Bonus track on CD reissue
2. "Wade in the Water
   Wade in the water
   "Wade in the Water" is the name of an African-American spiritual first published in New Jubilee Songs as Sung by the Fisk Jubilee Singers by John Wesley Work II and his brother, Frederick J...
   
   " - 3:46
3. "Panic Room Blues" (Norman Simmons) - 4:36
4. "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
   Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
   Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen is a spiritual. The song is well known and many cover versions of it have been produced, although the rendition by Louis Armstrong is the best known. Marian Anderson had her first successful recording with a version of this song on the Victor label in 1925. Lena...
   
   " (Traditional) - 2:43
5. "Meditation" (Simmons) - 8:21
6. "Holla" (Simmons) - 3:38
7. "So Tired" (Bobby Timmons
   Bobby Timmons
   Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his...
   
   ) - 6:38
8. "Deep River
   Deep River (song)
   "Deep River" is an anonymous spiritual of African American origin. It has been sung in several films, including the 1929 film version of Show Boat, although it was not used in the original show...
   
   " (Traditional) - 5:28
9. "Jubilation" (Junior Mance
   Junior Mance
   Julian Clifford Mance, Jr. is an American jazz pianist and composer.-Biography:...
   
   ) - 3:57

Personnel

• Johnny Griffin
  Johnny Griffin
  John Arnold Griffin III was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist.- Early life and career :Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto sax...
  
   — tenor saxophone
• Norman Simmons
  Norman Simmons (musician)
  Norman Simmons is an American arranger, composer, educator, and most prominently a pianist who has worked extensively with Helen Humes, Carmen McRae, and Sarah Vaughan, Anita O'Day, and Joe Williams among others.-Biography:...
  
   — arranger
• Harold Mabern
  Harold Mabern
  Harold Mabern is a hard bop and soul jazz pianist.Early in his career, Mabern played in Chicago with Walter Perkins' MJT + 3 in the late 1950s before moving to New York in 1959. Mabern has worked with Jimmy Forrest, Lionel Hampton, the Jazztet , Donald Byrd, Miles Davis , J. J...
  
   — piano (all tracks except #5)
• Bobby Timmons
  Bobby Timmons
  Robert Henry "Bobby" Timmons was an African American jazz pianist and composer.He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is best known for his role as sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and the composition of "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here", each of which are typical of his...
  
   — piano (#5), celeste (#4)
• Clark Terry
  Clark Terry
  Clark Terry is an American swing and bop trumpeter, a pioneer of the fluegelhorn in jazz, educator, NEA Jazz Masters inductee, and recipient of the 2010 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award...
  
  , Bob Bryant — trumpet
• Charles Davis
  Charles Davis (saxophonist)
  Charles Davis is an American jazz baritone saxophonist who performed extensively with Archie Shepp and Sun Ra, among others.-Biography:...
  
   — baritone sax
• Edwin Williams — tenor sax
• Julian Priester
  Julian Priester
  Julian Priester is an American jazz trombonist and composer.He has played with many artists including Sun Ra, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock.-Biography:...
  
  , Matthew Gee
  Matthew Gee
  Matthew Gee was an American bebop trombonist and part time actor.Gee played trumpet and baritone as a child, and took up the trombone at age 11. After studying at Alabama State University, he played with Coleman Hawkins before doing a stint in the Army...
  
   — trombone
• Pat Patrick — alto sax (#1, 2, 3, 8)
• Frank Strozier
  Frank Strozier
  Frank Strozier is an alto saxophonist renowned for his playing in the hard bop idiom.Strozier grew up in Memphis Memphis, Tennessee...
  
   — alto sax (#4, 5, 6, 7, 9)
• Bob Cranshaw
  Bob Cranshaw
  Melbourne R. "Bob" Cranshaw is an American jazz bassist. His career spans the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long association with Sonny Rollins...
  
   — bass (#1, 2, 3, 8)
• Victor Sproles
  Victor Sproles
  Victor Sproles is a US jazz bassist.Sproles worked in the 1950s with Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan and appears on the Sun Ra recordings Super-Sonic Jazz, Sound of Joy and Deep Purple....
  
   — bass (#4, 5, 6, 7, 9)
• Charlie Persip
  Charlie Persip
  Charli Persip , is an American jazz drummer. Born in Morristown, New Jersey as Charles Lawrence Persip, he changed his name to Charli Persip in the early 1980s.-Biography:...
  
  — drums