This album received wide acclaim, voted "jazz album of the year" by the Jazz Journalists Association, DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE, and received a GRAMMY Award, the first GRAMMY in history awarded to an album with Internet-only sales. It started the crowd-funding craze. Along with Schneider's album 'Evanescence' it was voted in the top 25 all-time best big band recordings by critics for DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE.