[3] Alternates and outtakes from the session were released by Mythic Sound on Earl Bud Powell, Vol.

[4] In a review for AllMusic, Ron Wynn noted Powell's "uneven but often astonishing piano work," and wrote: "the vast majority of selections are performed with flair and conviction.

"[5] Writer Ira Gitler commented: "this album stands far above the painful Victors and Verves of the 1954–1956 period and is more like early Powell than the Blue Notes of the late fifties.

"[10] A writer for Billboard stated that Powell plays "smoothly and most brightly," and is "capable of conveying the subtlest of jazz moods.

"[11] Trevor Tolley of Coda remarked: "On 'How High the Moon' there is plenty of dash, but the fingering is not good...