In a review for
DownBeat, Peter Margasak wrote: "Despite their ages... the performances here reveal undiminished powers, and while the pianist generally eschews his most volcanic machinations, there's nothing remotely relaxed about these performances... Although the intensity ebbs and flows, the duo never engages in simple acceleration and deceleration; instead, Taylor is forever looking on the horizon, pushing the music into consistently new terrain, and while his language and phrasing may be familiar here, his drive and invention sounds as fresh and vital as anything he's done in decades. A late-career gem." Writing for
Burning Ambulance, Phil Freeman stated: "there really is a surprising amount of genuine interplay on these two slabs. A lot of it is Oxley responding to Taylor's melodic and structural provocations—hammering the kit as the pianist hammers the keys, throwing evocative little phrases in when the older man... gets quiet—but there are many moments when Taylor, too, seems to be really listening to his partner." He concluded by writing that the duo made "intensely involving music, and this is a superb example." In a review for
The Absolute Sound,
Duck Baker remarked: "Taylor virtually assaults the keyboard to produce a volcanic flow of cascading, criss-crossing lines, which leave the listener all but exhausted. But in recent years he has shown much more willingness to interject space and even a rhapsodic lyricism into his improvisations. This tendency allows Oxley to really prove his worth, and he reacts and responds to, and anticipates the pianist in what is more collaboration than accompaniment." ==Track listing==