[1][2][3][4] In a review for All About Jazz, John Sharpe called the recording "a surprisingly accessible album which fizzes with joie de vivre," and commented: "they conjure outbreaks of irrepressible swing from even the seemingly most abstract surroundings... A relaxed vibe pervades the set, stemming from a perception that each can explore in whatever direction they choose no matter what the starting point... it's two people having fun in a way which everyone can share.

"[5] AAJ's Glenn Astarita remarked: "The album projects a mélange of styles, colors and quaintly articulated hooks, engineered with blues riffs, classical overtones and fractured theme-building flare-ups... the artists' impenetrable solidarity adds another dimension to their enlivening exchanges and beaming telepathic powers.

She's a classically expert improviser, and Bennink is a superb partner... [they] seem to breeze through swing, boogie, stride, all filtered through the lens of collaborative free jazz.

He stated: "Bennink has a preternatural talent for coaxing out the comedic, even slapstick, sides of his musical colleagues and he brings that precision sense of madcap near-absurdity directly to bear on Schweizer who welcomes it completely from her piano bench.

At times it may sound elusive, more 'disguised' in its melding of the elements, but which always binds the ingredients in extraordinary ways and gives even the uninformed listener a subliminal sense of order.