Gil Evans (keyboards); Sting (vocals, guitar); John Clark (guitar, French horn); Emily Mitchell (harp); Chris Hunter, Arthur Blythe (alto saxophone); Branford Marsalis (tenor saxophone); John Surman (baritone saxophone, synthesizer); Shunzo Ohno (trumpet, flugelhorn); Miles Evans, Ernie Royal, Lew Soloff (trumpet); Tom "Bones" Malone (trombone, tenor trombone, bass trombone); George Lewis and His Ragtime Band , George Lewis (tenor trombone); Robert Stewart (tuba); Pete Levin (Clavinet); Gil Goldstein (keyboards, synthesizer); Delmar Brown (synthesizer); Suzannah Evans, Sue Evans (drums, percussion); Danny Gottlieb (drums); Urszula Dudziak (background vocals)

As Sting expanded past The Police into his solo career and further still with young jazz musicians Brandford Marsalis and Kenny Kirkland, he encountered the venerable Gil Evans who had embraced rock in the past with his big band recordings of Jimi Hendrix tunes. These live recordings from Perugia, Italy in 1987 (plus one earlier Evans recording from 1976) fuse the work of the two principles accompanied by sidemen of reknown. This night included Hendrix ("Little Wing") and Sting pieces ("Tea in the Sahara", "Consider Me Gone") in addition to Billy Holiday's classic "Strange Fruit".