This San Francisco trio of the mid-1950s has a sparkling personality all its own with a refreshing lack of pretentiousness; an ebullient swing on the up tempos, and a subtle, unhackneyed approach to ballads such as "Sweet and Lonely" and / or jazz standards such as John Lewis' "Django". Vince Guaraldi and Eddie Duran had been longtime associates on the San Francisco music scene and their rapport is self evident. Bassist Dean Reilly fit right in to help form a trio that is the epitome of "easy listening", without sounding like the King Cole Trio or any of the many other piano/guitar/bass trios so popular in the previous decade. "A jazzman with deep roots in his language, Vince projects clearly an individual musical personality direct, emotional, inventive, tied-to-no-school". - Nat Hentoff, Down Beat