[1] CD version was released from EmArcy label in 1989 with additional three tracks.
Masabumi and Gil hit it off to organize hybrid orchestra from Japan and the US.
Toshinari Koinuma had managed to coordinate the personnels, hired 21 Japanese players besides Masabumi, and Gil visited Japan for the first time with Billy Harper and Marvin Peterson.
[2] The concert was named "Kikuchi Masabumi Recital", and held at four cities; started from Tokyo on 27th, Osaka, Wakayama and Nagoya.
All the orchestra members came together at Victor Studio in Tokyo again on July 4, and the recording took all night long.