[2] In a review for DownBeat, Ed Enright stated that the album "further cements [Cyrille's] legacy as a premier force in jazz improvisation over a span of some six decades," and commented: "You... feel the group's warm, wide-open, all-enveloping instrumental sound, and the music comes across as deliberate and free, never rushed.

"[4] Ian Patterson, in an article for All About Jazz, called the album "a quietly seductive offering of real charm and deceptive depth," and wrote: "Cyrille is the dynamo that drives this quartet with his less-is-more vocabulary.

His constantly shifting, needle sharp backdrop imparts a feeling he could do anything at any time, but what he chooses is always perfectly judged," and called the album "a quietly brilliant set... Late work from an old master, and a record to pass to any drummers you may come across who could do with learning that less is more.

"[11] At Jazzwise, Kevin Le Gendre wrote: "Andrew Cyrille may be seen first and foremost as an avant-garde legend whose career has many historic moments... yet he is also a master storyteller beyond genre definitions.

Cyrille's often painterly textural invention has always been outstanding, and here he shows a consummate command of low tempo on daringly spacious, sparse material where he chooses every strike of snare or crash of ride cymbal with the utmost care, as if the notes were punctuation in a letter or exclamation marks in an intimate conversation.