" Each of the pianist's three originals here are (...) mercurial and improvisatory in feel, erudite and complex in execution ... Recorded at the Village Vanguard, the album captured only a fraction of Batiste's residency last fall. But two standards made the cut, including "Round Midnight." It starts as a stealthy reveal of angular hidden corners and morphs into a heavy swing, before slipping into a subtle rhumba. A lone trumpet propels the tune-a musical allusion, perhaps, to Gabriel, the archangel, announcing the approach of divinity".