It was originally issued on Bennett's own Improv Records label, which went out of business later that year, but was subsequently reissued on Concord.

Both albums plus alternate takes and additional tracks were later released as The Complete Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Recordings by Fantasy in 2009.

[1] The album opens with a brief solo by Evans on David Raksin's theme "The Bad and the Beautiful" from the film of that title.

[2] There are also performances of what were quickly becoming important modern jazz standards, "A Child Is Born" by Thad Jones, which Evans had recorded with a quintet just a few months earlier for the album Quintessence, and Michel Legrand's "You Must Believe in Spring," which would later be featured as the title track of one of Evans's most acclaimed trio albums.

"[4] Evans biographer Peter Pettinger said, "the two artists produced a recording at least as relaxed and mutually in tune as their first" and singled out the "hushed rendering of one of Michel Legrand's finest songs, 'You Must Believe in Spring.