[3] Rosenthal recalled: "The main thing for me, to be honest, was just to make Giuseppi feel good and to give him some money and some CDs to sell in the park...

"[4] In his AllMusic review, Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, referring to the group as "a killer band" and writing: "By any measure, The Giuseppi Logan Quintet is an astonishing comeback record because of its sheer virtuosic facility, Logan's composing and playing so finely wrought, it's as if he never left!

Throwing out any preconceptions of whether something 'works' is the best tack to take—if playing and recording gives Logan joy, camaraderie, recognition and a discographical calling card in his last years, who can argue?

"[7] Peter Margasak, in a review for DownBeat, commented: "the arrangements, which swing elegantly, definitely push the music toward a brisk freebop sound, in contrast to the more metrically radical sound of his earlier work... there's a heartening tenderness and warmth to his playing—as if the opportunity to make music again has filled him with emotion—that's impossible to deny, and although the group was assembled specifically for the date, there's a strong sense of empathy across the board... there's something inspiring about his decision to lay it all out, warts and all.

"[8] Elliott Sharp commented: "While it is clear that Logan was without his instruments for quite a while, his atonal and surprisingly blue reed-work is undeniably compelling and deep.