[2] The composition called "The Loop" can also be heard on the 2004 album Duo Palindrome 2002 Vol.

"[3] Author W. C. Bamberger wrote: "There are two trap set solo pieces here, 'Excerpt from Spencyrspell,' and 'The Loop.'

On both, Cyrille is lightning fast, crisp and unrelenting, but strict time isn't much of a concern.

Any section of the 'Suite' could stand as a brilliant jazz solo, but episodes are broken with stops and starts, accelerations and brakings; strung together the pieces are full of contrast, swerving, endlessly inventive--an encyclopedic working-through of the drum set's possible colors.

"[6] Coda's Bill Shoemaker commented: "Only a consummate percussionist like Andrew Cyrille could take the solo format to such incandescent and sheerly musical ends... For anyone concerned with percussion, this is an album worth going to lengths to hear.