[1] “Infatuation Eyes” is a solo piano piece paying tribute to Art Tatum, who died in November 1956.

[3] Patrick Burnette of All About Jazz noted that the album is "probably the best place to start" with Nichols' music, and commented: "George Duvivier and Dannie Richmond are marvelously energetic and sympatico—the session threatens to break into dance at several points.

"[2] A reviewer for Billboard wrote: "His piano stylings are original and his many compositions included here are interesting too... Good wax that should win Nichols new fans.

He may remind us of Powell and Monk, and of Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson, but it is also obvious that he plays with a jazz style that is thoroughly Nichols.

"[5] Author Gene Santoro stated that the album consists of "bracingly nuanced sketches of potentially far richer compositions," and described the title track as "an ambitious waltz with interpolated tempo shifts and turnarounds of jagged scalar riffs, a skeletal X ray of a deeper psychological picture.