[2] The final track, "Miss Ann", is followed by a brief excerpt from an interview recorded by Michiel de Ruyter for Dutch radio, in which Dolphy states: "when you hear music, after it's over, it's gone in the air, you can never capture it again.

Two days after Dolphy's death, drummer Han Bennink received a letter from him containing details regarding a proposed engagement at the Café Montmartre in Copenhagen.

[6] Despite its title, Last Date was not Dolphy's last recorded performance, as he participated in sessions with Donald Byrd, Nathan Davis, and other musicians in mid-June 1964.

He stated that Mengelberg's trio were "performers who understand the ways in which [Dolphy] modified music in such a unique, passionate, and purposeful way far from convention", "a group who understood his off-kilter, pretzel logic concept in shaping melodies and harmonies," and wrote that they "played so convincingly and with the utmost courage that they created a final stand in the development of how the woodwindist conceived of jazz like no one else before, during, or after his life.

"[17] The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings wrote: "the performances are very good indeed and Misha Mengelberg's trio plays sympathetically...