On the positive side, it was ranked the #2 Jazz album in the Down Beat "Critics Poll 2000",Down Beat (8/00, p.27), losing by 1 vote to Soul on Soul by (Dave Douglas) and Entertainment Weekly rated it an "A".Entertainment Weekly, issue #512, Nov 12, 1999, p. 83See Keith Jarrett Melody At Night, With You CD for a selection of reviews.Further reviews: Q (2/00, p.90), 4 stars out of 5; Down Beat (8/00, p.27); JazzTimes (1-2/00, pp. 95–6) The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 4 stars, calling it "a record of fragile magnificence, a sequence of filigreed songs from a common musical past... It is a quite simply magnificent record, swinging in a way that Jarrett has rarely before been swinging... and sweetly melodic." Writing for DownBeat, John Ephland commented: "the playing on this solo-piano recording is subdued, but does not lack for earnestness, passion or focus. The music is exquisite, unnerving and disarming, as the virtuoso bypasses flourish, instead choosing to speak plainly."
