...composer and conductor Constant Lambert said, "I know of nothing in Ravel so dexterous in treatment as in the varied solos in the middle . . . and nothing in Stravinsky more dynamic than the final section. The combination of themes at this moment is one of the most ingenious pieces of writing in modern music."...

...and they are the only jazz records worth studying for their form as well as their texture. ... I know nothing in Ravel so dextrous in treatment as the varied solos in the middle of the ebullient Hot and Bothered, and nothing in Stravinsky more dynamic than the final section. ....