G. Fischer in Musikexpress 5/04: "Here the cool jazz proclaimed two Years earlier with bebop and the impending twitches of hard bop and the impending convulsions of hard bop who actually runs out of breath with excitement at some point simply isn't yet addicted enough to this this document of the jazz century." R. Bei der Kellen in Jazzthetik 4/04: "The title alone plus the promising subheading "Newly Restored Broadcasts" should be enough to get many jazz fans excitedly to storm the nearest CD store, and rightly so, despite the fact that the Rightly so, despite the fact that the first and third sessions included here are already known from countless semi-legal editions the second session, on the other hand, is a previously on the other hand, is a previously unreleased recording and the "raison d'etre" of this release of the first two sessions is a dream; especially the extremely the extremely playful Art Blakey and an unbelievably and an unbelievably skillful young Sonny Rollins is a real pleasure to listen to the third "Move" version is a little more balanced, which is more balanced, which may also be due to the changed line-up the comparison of these three versions alone makes this makes this CD a highly interesting document of jazz history of jazz history."