Curves Ahead

Track listing

1. "Curves Ahead" - 5:39
2. "Aspen" - 5:28
3. "Santa Fe Trail" - 5:14
4. "Take Me with You" - 5:34
5. "North Star" - 5:24
6. "Miles Away" - 5:17
7. "Snowbound" - 4:51
8. "Nature of the Beast" - 6:21
9. "Morning Song" - 4:09

Personnel

• Russ Freeman – keyboards, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, horn arrangements, bass, classical guitar, steel-string guitar
• Mark Portmann – acoustic piano, keyboards
• Kim Stone – bass
• Tony Morales – drums
• Steve Reid – congas, blocks, udus, shakers, Chinese bells, Japanese bells, jingle stick, caxixi, toys, percussion, tambourine, apito, cowbell, ganzá, surdo, timbales, vocals, chimes, guiro, crotales, spinning bells, bongos, claves, pods, batá drum, djembe, djum-djum, axatse, repinique, shekere, seed pods, rainstick, bird calls
• Jeff Kashiwa – alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

• Dave Grusin – acoustic piano and solo
• Steve Bailey – additional fretted and fretless basses, fretless bass
• Omar Hakim – drums
• Nelson Rangell – alto saxophone, flute, piccolo solo, whistling
• Bobby Martin – tenor saxophone
• Kirk Whalum – tenor saxophone
• Bruce Fowler – trombone
• Steve Szabo – trumpet

• Dave Grusin – executive producer
• Larry Rosen – executive producer
• Carl Griffin – associate executive producer
• Russ Freeman – producer, arrangements, engineer, digital mixing
• Brant Biles – engineer, digital mixing
• Robert Margouleff – engineer, digital mixing
• David Hesse – additional engineer
• Joseph Doughney – post-production
• Michael Landay – post-production
• The Review Room – post-production location
• Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering
• Andi Howard – production coordinator, management
• Michele Lewis – production coordinator
• Andy Baltimore – creative director
• David Gibb – graphic design
• Scott Johnson – graphic design
• Sonny Mediana – graphic design
• Andy Ruggirello – graphic design
• Dan Serrano – graphic design
• Bill Mayer – front cover artwork
• Jeff Katz – photography