"The music was taped in a radio station studio (...) with excellent and lucid acoustics in front of a small, attentive and select audience, so it really represents the best aspects of both a live and a studio recording. This makes it a fascinating halfway point between the Montreux and Black Forest albums ... It also has a particularly strong selection of tunes, only three of which overlap with the Black Forest recording (You're Gonna Hear from Me, Very Early and Turn Out the Stars) and two with Montreux (Embraceable You and Nardis). A special treat is the Bacharach-David "Alfie" which (...) is brimming with brio and inventive wit here ... But the real treasure is Johnny Mandel's "Emily" (...) which brings out the most gentle and sensitively explorative approach from Bill Evans ... One of the surprises of this album is the delicacy and judicious diffidence with which DeJohnette plays throughout. There's a sense of strength and inventiveness to spare, all held in reserve.UntilNardis, that is, when the power, density and complexity of his drumming is given a showcase. The intensity of his performance on this Miles Davis number has a flavour of the prophetic, given that Davis would come into Ronnie Scott's in a few weeks' time, hear DeJohnette, and make him an offer he couldn't refuse".