Roles (Joe Sample album)

Adapted from album's text.^[2]

Adapted from album's text.^[2]

Production

• Joe Sample – producer
• Wilton Felder – producer
• F. Byron Clark – engineer, mixing
• Glenn Kurtz – assistant engineer
• Liz Cluse – mix assistant
• Bernie Grundman – mastering at Bernie Grundman Mastering (Hollywood, California)
• Ceferino "Sonny" Abelardo – production coordinator
• Pamela Hope Lobue – production coordinator
• Kathleen Covert – art direction, design
• Mindas – cover photography

Musicians

• Joe Sample – acoustic piano, electronic keyboards
• Dr. George Shaw – synthesizer programming
• Dean Parks – guitars
• Rick Zunigar – guitar solo (6)
• Abraham Laboriel – bass
• Sonny Emory – drums
• Lenny Castro – percussion
• Bobby Hutcherson – marimba solo (4), vibraphone (7)
• Bill Green – flute (2, 3), reeds (5, 6)
• Plas Johnson – flute (2, 3), reeds (5, 6)
• Ronald Brown – reeds (5, 6)
• Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (5, 6)
• Gary Grant – flute (2, 3), trumpet (5, 6)
• Sal Marquez – trumpet (2, 3, 5, 6), muted trumpet (2), trumpet solo (5)
• Kathy Brown, Voncielle Faggett, Jim Gilstrap and Michael Tompkins – voices (1)