Released in August 2024, the recording features original compositions largely by the duo, with Goldings on keyboard and a variety of synthesizers, while Sullivan's tap dancing provides the percussion.
"[3] Also performing on Big Foot are Sam Gendel (saxophone), CJ Camerieri (trumpet), Daphne Chen (violin and viola) and Karl McComas-Reichl (bass).
We recognize the layered electronic textures in keyboardist Larry Goldings' melodic and harmonic conjuring, but the music's percussive intricacies and filigrees can be harder to tap into, so to speak.
They begin, they develop, they end somewhere unexpected....But whatever the journey and the influences ma.y have been, simply put Big Foot is great music that is both extremely difficult to execute but very easy to listen to.
"[6] On UK Jazz News, Liam Noble wrote that "dance presents itself as a very visual medium, but in Melinda Sullivan's case she has the melodic and rhythmic brain of a drummer.