Bass – Buster Williams, Jacqui Danilow, Jay Leonhart, Leon Maleson, Milt Hinton, Bill Sloat*
Bass Clarinet – James Ognibene*
Cello – Akua Dixon-Turre*, Anne Callahan, Batia Lieberman, Bruce Wang, David Calhoun, Diane Barere, Eileen Folson, Eugene Moye, Francesca Vanasco, Fred Zlotkin, Maria Kitsopoulos, Marisol Espada, Melissa Meel*
Clarinet – Albert Regni, Jon Manasse
Composed By, Conductor, Trumpet – Terence Blanchard
Concertmaster – Sanford Allen
Copyist – Peter Levin*
Executive-Producer – Spike Lee, Terence Blanchard
Flute [Alto] – Paula Bing
French Horn – Ann Yarbrough, Jeffrey Scott, Jerome Ashby, Philip Myers, Scott Temple, Theresa Hardison
Mastered By – David Mitson
Oboe – Steve Taylor*
Percussion – Troy Davis (2)
Piano – Edward Simon
Producer – Alex Steyermark, Robin Burgess
Synthesizer – Rick Stevenson (3)
Trombone – Dave Taylor*, Jeffrey Nelson*, James Pugh*
Tuba – Howard Johnson (3)
Viola – Alfred Brown, Barbara Vaccaro, Crystal Garner, Harry Zarazian*, Henry Kao, Jean Dexter, Jesse Levine, Joel Rudin, Julien Barber, Lois Martin, Maureen Gallagher, Maxine Roach, Richard Brice, Richard Spencer*, Sue Pray
Violin – Ashley Horne, Barry Finclair, Carol Pool, Cecilia Hobbs-Gardner*, Cenovia Cummins, Charles Libove, Claudia Saslow, Dale Stuckenbruck, Diane Monroe, Elliot Rosoff, Ethel Abelson, Gail Dixon*, Jerry Tarak*, Jean Ingraham, Jenise Grice, John Pintavalle, Joyce Hammann, Kathy Livolsi-Stern*, Marion Pinheiro, Mary Whitaker, Max Ellen, Mineko Yajima, Ming Yeh, Myra Segal, Nicholas Milton, Rebekah Johnson, Sandra Billingslea, Sasha Vselensky, Sean Carney (2), Sheila Reinhold, Sylvio D’Avanzo*, Wint Garvey*, Yuri Vodovoa*