In April 2003 Erik van der Luijt decided to record a new album and within a month he had picked 15 jazz standards, most of them from the repertoire he had been playing with his trio for the past seven years.

This was a major setback to the project because his original style of drumming had become an important part of the trio's sound.

He was replaced by Victor de Boo, who had briefly worked with Van der Luijt years earlier.

"Erik van der Luijt knows his Oscar Peterson, Tommy Flanagan and Bill Evans and used their influences to create an exquisite mixture in which coquetry and adventure go hand-in-hand.

- Jeroen de Valk, Het Utrechts Nieuwsblad All music composed by Erik van der Luijt