[2] The album features three performances by Shepp & Dixon with Don Moore and Paul Cohen and a version of Ornette Coleman's composition "Peace" with Reggie Workman and Howard McRae.

"[4] Richard Brody praised the album: "Dixon plays with a bright, fanfare-like tone and a stirring sense of drama — his solos seem constructed with discursive foresight, like a speaker putting together paragraphs that build to grand conclusions.

His expansive, eloquent, distinctively mature and wise style contrasts with Shepp’s impulsive inventions and jaggedly guitar-like tones on tenor saxophone.

Just as illuminating is Dixon's writing, which if plainly avant-garde was never more peggable to the tradition than here; if he's not yet at the compositional level of Coleman, whose tune provides the trumpeter a fine platform for soloing, his talent is obvious...

The choice of 'Somewhere' mildly predicts Shepp's reading of 'The Girl from Ipanema' from Fire Music; the way he and Dixon tangle with the melody is a true gas and a valuable snapshot of a fleeting moment in the jazz avant-garde's development.