The Allmusic review by Jim Todd awarded the album 2½ stars and states "a fine example of Kelly relaxed and swinging. Working a similar niche to some of the piano trio work of Red Garland and Ahmad Jamal — two pianists with their own associations with Miles Davis — Kelly takes a selection of well-known standards and energizes them with tasteful, sophisticated, snappy performances, blending in a group of original tunes along the way".[2]
Critic Ira Gitler writing in the January 4, 1962 issue of DownBeat awarded the album four stars. He called it "A throughly enjoyable, professional piano recital. Kelly has all the equipment, and he knows what to do with it."[3]
