Haiku

Tracklist

A1	Children	3:30
A2	Blossoming	3:52
A3	Water Jewel	5:23
A4	Cherry Petals	2:47
A5	Forest	3:30
B1	Summer Rain	2:20
B2	Two Autumns	4:57
B3	Mirror-Pond Of Stars	3:25
B4	Parting	6:18
B5	Dew	1:28

Credits

• Bass – Ray Brown
• Cello – Frederick Seykora, Raphael Kramer, Ronald Cooper
• Composed By, Arranged By, Conductor, Producer, Trumpet – Don Ellis
• Contractor – Marty Berman
• Drums – John Guerin
• Engineer – Hugh Davies
• Ensemble [String Quartet] – Allan Harshman, Erno Neufeld, Israel Baker, Raphael Kramer
• Guitar – David Cohen (tracks: A1, A3, B1, B3), Larry E. Carlton* (tracks: A2, 4:57), Tommy Tedesco (tracks: A4, B4, B5)
• Harp – Catherine Gotthoffer
• Keyboards – Milcho Leviev
• Photography By [Back Cover], Artwork By [Cover], Design [Album], Translated By [Haikus] – Maria Eckstein
• Remix [Engineer] – Paul Grupp
• Translated By [Haikus], Supervised By [Recording] – Baldhard Falk*
• Viola – Alfred Barr (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B3), Allan Harshman, Dan Neufeld (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B3), David Schwartz, Myra Kestenbaum (tracks: A4, B4, B5), Samuel Voghossian* (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B3)
• Violin – Erno Neufeld, George Berres, George Kast, Gerald Vinci, Israel Baker, Jacob Krachmalnick, Marcia Van Dyck*, Marvin Limonick, Shirley Cornell

Notes

Artwork is identical to earlier German MPS-BASF release, but record comes without gatefold sleeve.
Distributed by METRONOME, Überseering 21, 2000 Hamburg 60
Presumably issued around 1980.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Label Code: LC 0979
• Matrix / Runout (earlier matrix number still visible, but crossed out on master): 070148 S1
• Matrix / Runout (earlier matrix number still visible, but crossed out on master): 070148 S2

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MC 25341, MB-25341	Don Ellis	Haiku ‎(LP, Album)	MPS Records, BASF, MPS Records, BASF	MC 25341, MB-25341	US	1973
MPS 68050	Don Ellis	Haiku ‎(LP, Album)	MPS Records	MPS 68050	Germany	1974
YP-7068-MP	Don Ellis	Haiku ‎(LP, Album)	MPS Records	YP-7068-MP	Japan	1974
UXP-60-P	Don Ellis	Haiku ‎(LP, Album)	MPS Records	UXP-60-P	Japan	1976
441132 CD	Don Ellis	Haiku ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM, Pap)	Promising Music, MPS Records	441132 CD	Germany	2010