If he'd mellowed a bit by this time, Taylor was still quite capable of working up a storm that dwarfed the efforts of 99 percent of those who attempted to emulate him, and did so with a balletic grace that his imitators could only dream of...

[2] John Corbett wrote: "A relaxed, slightly reserved Taylor emerges here, full of flame but more than ever investigating a kind of majesty, grandeur, lyricism, and elegance.

Over the years, Taylor has developed several trademarks strategies: mirror image left and right hands (sort of instant retrograde inversion), stately bass chord figures; identical patterns rapidly shifted from register.

On the long piece that forms the bulk of this recording, these are contrasted, mutated, grafted together, and truncated, serving both as genetic material and as thematic guideposts through the underbrush of improvisation.

"[4] Writing for Burning Ambulance, Phil Freeman commented: The piano sounds like a gigantic steel harp at times, the strings zinging and seeming to fly loose.