[2] Evans's manager Helen Keane commented:[3] As much as Bill enjoyed playing alone at home, and although by this time he regularly included a solo section in his concert program, he found recording in this context very difficult.

It was probably the only area he felt insecure about musically, and the fact that he'd gotten a Grammy for Alone didn't seem to help.As with Alone, the album consists of five jazz standards, none originals, with the last track, in this case "People," receiving an especially extended treatment.

[8] Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow said that "Evans plays well enough on this set of unaccompanied solos (reissued on CD), but the material is generally not worth the intense explorations that it receives.

"[5] Evans biographer Peter Pettinger says, "The weight of the album lay in Jule Styne's showstopper 'People,' from Funny Girl, here receiving the full rhapsodic treatment.

He made the song see-saw several times between the keys of Bb and E, two tonalities that enjoy a special relationship for musicians, being equidistant by a tritone.