You might have expected a restrained and delicate ECM-like jazz chamber music to be produced by this trio, and when you hear John Parricelli's first wispy guitar harmonics and Stan Sulzmann's airy soprano-sax lines on the opener, with Wheeler's plummy brass sound sliding in underneath, you know you're right. But this is a completely distinctive record within this genre of patiently-unfolding small group contemperary jazz, with Sulzmann having rarely sounded better, the textures constantly shifting, the themes constantly absorbing, the recording warm and sympathetic. All the pieces are by the band members, except for Strayhorn's 'A Flower is a Lovesome Thing.'

John Fordham - Jazz UK