[4] Bartz was backed by the Candid All Stars: bassist Ray Drummond, pianist Kenny Barron, and drummer Ben Riley.

[5][6] He composed "Racism (Blues in Double Bb Minor)" and "Flight Path".

"[10] The Washington Post wrote that "Bartz's brash, headlong improvisations, accruing more momentum with every chorus and often sustained brilliantly by Barron, are tempered by the emotional vulnerability the saxophonist displays so readily on the ballads.

"[11] In 1993, Newsday wrote that Riley and Barron "played to great effect on the underrated" There Goes the Neighborhood!

"[8] The Encyclopedia of Popular Music called the album "a vivid record of one of modern jazz’s most intense and exciting living saxophonists, playing at his peak.