DESCRIPTION:
from Wayne Shorter's Blue Note album "Schizophrenia".

Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on March 10, 1967
Originally issued as Blue Note BST-84297
Produced by Francis Wolff
Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder

CURTIS FULLER, trombone
JAMES SPAULDING, alto sax and flute
WAYNE SHORTER, tenor sax
HERBIE HANCOCK, piano
RON CARTER, bass
JOE CHAMBERS, drums

Kryptonite [James Spaulding]

"Kryptonite, the only non-Shorter original of the set, written by James Spaulding, is another briskly paced work with one or two attractively jagged interval-jumps. The title refers to a gas used in small quartz lamps for extremely brilliant illumination. Spaulding on flute shows a flowing case and lightness that contrasts interestingly with the power and drive of his saxophone. Chambers and Carter again show how much they care about the nuance of time - most notably during Herbie's solo. The latter has a sort of suspended-in-air-quality, as if he were performing a high-wire act over a net provided by them."

- Leonard Feather, original liner notes