[1] In the album liner notes, Sommer is quoted as saying, "To play with Cecil Taylor is a challenge, in many different ways, also on the physical level.

Not only just reacting to his music, but keeping up with him, bringing in your own material... We had only improvised together for about twenty minutes that afternoon and so, for the concert, I had to rely on my own fund of experience.

"[2] The AllMusic review by Thom Jurek states, "This is Taylor at his most playful, creating moods and shapes and colors to be reacted to emotionally, which is something he almost never does.

These players don't come from many places in common, so they move together in a flurry of elegant ideas that are stretched endlessly to the margin before another is produced.

The sheer joy and smirky exuberance at play here make for a wondrous change of pace and mood for Taylor, and consequently offer listeners some of his most intimate and compelling music.