The album was released in 2007 by Emanem Records[1][2][3] According to Rutherford, prior to one of the concerts, he was approached by fellow trombonist Vinko Globokar, who asked him what he was going to play, and how he was going to start his set.

"[4] In a review for All About Jazz, Clifford Allen wrote: "Rutherford creates an environment in which events occur, jocular or athletic, pensive or indescribable as he vocalizes, hums, whinnies, belches in a treatise of sonic exploration on not only 'flicking the bugle,' as he says, but seeing what motion coupled with breath can do...

"[4] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated: "Producer Martin Davidson... expressed some doubt as to the morality of releasing the CD after Paul's death, lest it be though he was cashing in.

"[5] Jason Bivins of Signal to Noise commented: "Lusty and garrulous, surly and declamatory, puckish and inquisitive, all these qualities flash in a moment, courtesy of a truly vivid musical imagination and a powerful, individual technique.

"[6] In their 2009 Book of the Year, the editors of Encyclopædia Britannica referred to the recording as an "outstanding album" and "a belated discovery.