bass Doug Watkins
design [cover] Reid Miles
drums Art Blakey
liner notes Ira Gitler
mastered by Rudy Van Gelder
photography by Francis Wolff
piano Horace Silver
producer Alfred Lion
recorded by Rudy Van Gelder
tenor saxophone Hank Mobley
trumpet Kenny Dorham
Record Company Blue Note Records
Recorded At Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey
Pressed By Plastylite
Recorded on November 13, 1954 & February 6, 1955.

The 1st original MONO issue has:
- blue and white Blue Note Records 767 Lexington Ave NYC address on deep grooved labels
- flat rim vinyl
- RVG and P for Plastylite plant etched in the dead wax, both sides,
- 767 Lexington Ave., New York 21 address on back-cover
- framed non laminated cover
- blank spine

Matrix / Runout: RVG [the Plastylite Ear] BN-LP-1518-A 9M (A-side runout, etched)
Matrix / Runout: RVG [the Plastylite Ear] BN-LP-1518-B 9M (B-side runout, etched)
Matrix / Runout: [the Plastylite Ear] (A+B side runout fragment, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: (BN 1518-A) (A-side label)
Matrix / Runout: (BN 1518-B) (B-side label)