Winthrop Sargeant, classical music critic at The New Yorker, compared the band's sound to the work of an ``impressionist composer with a great sense of aural poetry and a very fastidious feeling for tone color... The music sounds more like that of a new Maurice Ravel than it does like jazz ... it is not really jazz.'' Though he did not recognize the record as jazz, Sargeant acknowledged that he found the record ``charming and exciting''.
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