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A1	Black Pearl Written-By – Herbie Hancock	8:01
A2	Speak Like A Child Written-By – Herbie Hancock	7:28
A3	Darts Written-By – Herbie Hancock	4:31
B1	Life Is More Precious Than Diamonds Written-By – Slide Hampton	6:35
B2	With The Force Of Nature Written-By – Slide Hampton	6:38
B3	Soul Eyes Written-By – Mal Waldron	6:58

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – The Automatt
• Mastered At – Victor Musical Industries, Inc.
• Lacquer Cut At – JVC Cutting Center, Aoyama

Credits

• Alto Saxophone – Richie Cole (tracks: B2)
• Alto Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Hiroshi Yaginuma
• Alto Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – Keiji Hori*
• Arranged By – Garnett Brown (tracks: A1 to A3), Slide Hampton (tracks: B1 to B3)
• Art Direction – Noboru Matsuzuka
• Bass – Atsuo Wada
• Bass Saxophone, Bass Clarinet – Kenichi Tada
• Bass Trombone – Michiharu Yamazaki
• Design – Riyoko Muranishi
• Drums – Hideki Nakamura
• Engineer – Fred Catero
• Engineer [Associate] – Ken Kessie
• Engineer [Cutting] – Hiroshi Yuasa
• Engineer [Mastering] – Tamaki Beck
• Guitar – Hidetoshi Kawano, Hiroyuki Ohkubo (tracks: A1 to A3)
• Illustration – Hajime Sorayama
• Leader, Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Tatsuya Takahashi
• Liner Notes – Conrad Silvert, Fred Catero, Herbie Hancock, Leonard Feather, Richie Cole, Slide Hampton
• Photography By [Inner Sleeve] – Veryl Oakland
• Piano – Herbie Hancock (tracks: A1 to A3), Masahiro Kanayama
• Piano [Acoustic], Electric Piano – Herbie Hancock (tracks: A1 to A3)
• Producer – Conrad Silvert
• Producer [Associate] – Masami Matsuoka
• Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Clarinet – Norio Moriguchi
• Trombone – Kenji Nishiyama, Osamu Matsumoto, Slide Hampton (tracks: B1), Tatsuroh Matsubayashi
• Trumpet – Tsuneo Takeda, Yoshifumi Tada
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Kiyoshi Ohsaka, Nobuo Katoh*

Notes

Recorded at The Automatt, San Francisco, Sept. 23-26, 1980
Herbie Hancock appears courtesy Columbia Records
Richie Cole appears courtesy Muse Records

Back cover:
Ⓟ 1980 Made in Japan Ⓚ ¥ 2,800

Disc labels:
Ⓟ 1980 Zen

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout (Label Side A): ZEN-5001-1
• Matrix / Runout (Label Side B): ZEN-5001-2
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side A [Stamped]): 〄Ⓑ ZEN 5001 1A̶ 111 ✢ X ウ
• Matrix / Runout (Runout Side B [Stamped]): ZEN 5001 B̶ 2 111 ✢
• Rights Society: JASRAC

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
ZEN-5001	Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union	Black Pearl ‎(LP, Album, Promo)	Zen	ZEN-5001	Japan	1980

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