[4] On All About Jazz Jack Bowers stated "there’s plenty of cleverly contoured music to appreciate.

And it must be said that no other trumpeter ever sounded exactly like Shorty, who had a lively and swinging language all his own.

His voicings for the trumpet section were similarly unexampled, and made any Rogers arrangement almost immediately identifiable.

...everything works, thanks to Shorty’s remarkable charts and the uncanny ability of his colleagues to speak volumes in only a few phrases".

[6] The tune "Play, Boy" was written especially for and first appeared on a two-record (LP) set issued in 1957 by Playboy Magazine honoring the winners of the magazine’s first Jazz Poll.