John Abercrombie: guitar, Dave Holland: bass, Jack DeJohnette: drums, piano

Miroslav Vitous: bass, John Surman: soprano and baritone sax, bass clarinet, John Taylor: piano, Jon Christensen: drums

Paul Bley: piano, Gary Peacock: bass, Paul Motian: drums, Billy Elgart: drums

Don Cherry: trumpet, piano, Dewey Redman: tenor sax, musette, Charlie Haden: bass, Ed Blackwell: drums

Julian Priester: trombone, flute, percussion, synthesizer, Pat Gleeson: synthesizer, Hadley Caliman: flute, sax, bass clarinet, Bayete Umbra Zindiko: piano, clavinet, Nyimbo Henry Franklin: bass, Ndugu Leon Chancler: drums, MguandaDavid Johnson: flute, soprano sax, Kamau Eric Gravatt: drums, conga, Ron McClure: bass, Bill Connors: guitar 

Terje Rypdale: guitar, guitar synthesizer, organ, Jack DeJohnette: drums, Miroslav Vitous: bass, electric piano

Eliane Elias: piano, Marc Johnson: double bass, Joey Baron: drums, Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone

Night Optician's (Nocni optika) is an instrumental quintet composed of musicians whose starting point is partially jazz, partially classical music. The result is a sort of periphery or suburb of the jazz mainstream, a place lit with flashes of the resonance of the pulsing fevers of the metropolis, and breezes of the sombre surfaces of the forest pools. A neurotic’s meditation blends with the phlegmatic’s mad dash in a herbarium of half-forgotten animals.