"Cool and caressing, warm and limpid, breathy and voluptuous, it's certainly a sound worth celebrating…. The problem with dwelling on The Sound is that it leads too many people to think all Getz had to do was pick up his instrument and play pretty to be who he was. He played pretty, all right, on ballads and uptempo tunes alike. Few musicians are able to cast more meaning over a simple melody than he could. But as a bountiful board of posthumous recent recordings and reissues reveal, that was only one of the eggs in his basket. Getz was an improviser of hard-swinging, penetrating brilliance and headstrong logic. Under a cloak of accessibility, he created worlds of emotion and revelation of the sort that may never be heard again."—Chicago Sun-Times