Music critic William York, writing for Allmusic, wrote of the album: "Nichols' compositions have their own sort of ambiguous, hard-to-pin-down harmonic aroma, filled with subtle harmonic twists and soft dissonances, but Baker somehow captures it in these versions even when he detours from the originals. He swings naturally and effortlessly when he wants, but he also takes things outside and gets abstract in his own quiet way... this album is a fine piece of work, one with the same type of subtlety and deceptive-sounding ease for which Nichols was/is known."[1]
