According to Ben Ratliff in Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Recordings, Tatum was known for virtuoso solo performance, while Webster had mellowed from his days with Duke Ellington.

[3] The session was released in 1958 on an LP produced by Norman Granz for Verve Records under the title Art Tatum – Ben Webster Quartet.

By 1971, Granz had attempted to gain access to this and his other out-of-print collaborations with Art Tatum from Verve, even offering to buy the masters.

In a 1994 review, The Hartford Courant described it as "delectable", with "Webster's big, breathy tone" wrapping "Tatum's arabesques in a warm, loving embrace.

42,[1] and in The 101 Best Jazz Albums, where author Leonard Lyons calls volume 8 the "most exciting" among the Group Masterpieces collection.