"[Craig Handy] revisit 10 numbers from the Jimmy Smith songbook; invite heavyweight guests, most from New Orleans. (Smith likes New Orleans second-line rhythms.) The ingredients ignite. Handy's band (Kyle Koehler, B-3; Matt Chertkoff, guitar; Clark Gayton, sousaphone) kicks ass, and the guests catch the vibe. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" is a jubilant scatting celebration by Dee Dee Bridgewater. Smith's 1965 version of "Got My Mojo Workin'" had a riffing, kicking horn section, his own vocal, and a monster organ workout. Handy's ambitious redo has a better blues singer, Clarence Spady. For horns, it has no less than Wynton Marsalis, deep in Big Easy character, squalling and rasping, and Handy himself, wildly trilling, rocking the house".