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===Reception===
''[[Detroit Free Press]]'' music critic Mark Stryker concluded: "Though indispensable, I think the score is too sketchy to rank in the top echelon among Ellington-Strayhorn masterpiece suites like ''[[Such Sweet Thunder]]'' and ''[[The Far East Suite]]'', but its most inspired moments are their equal."<ref name=stryker>{{cite news |last = Stryker |first = Mark |title = Ellington's Score Still Celebrated |date = January 20, 2009 |work = Detroit Free Press }}</ref>{{efn-ua|The score employs a "handful of themes, endlessly recombined and re-orchestrated. Ellington never wrote a melody more seductive than the hip-swaying "Flirtibird", featuring the "irresistibly salacious tremor" by [[Johnny Hodges]] on the [[alto saxophone]]." A stalking back-beat barely contains the simmering violence of the main title music" The score is heavily dipped in "the scent of the blues and Ellington's orchestra bursts with color."<ref name=stryker/>}}

The [[AllMusic]] review by Bruce Eder awarded the album 3 stars and called it "a virtuoso jazz score—moody, witty, sexy, and—in its own quiet way {{ndash}} playful".<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web |last = Eder |first = B. |url = http://www.allmusic.com/album/r110356 |title = AllMusic Review |website = [[AllMusic]] |access-date = May 17, 2010 }}</ref>

Ellington's score won three [[Grammy Awards]] in 1959: [[Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra&nbsp;– for Dancing|Best Performance by a Dance Band]], [[Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition|Best New Musical Composition]], and [[Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television|Best Soundtrack Album]].

{{Music ratings
|rev1= [[AllMusic]]
|rev1Score= {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>
|rev3 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]''
| rev3Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last = Swenson |editor-first = J. |year = 1985 |title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide |publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone |isbn = 0-394-72643-X |page = 69 }}</ref> 
|rev2 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]''
|rev2score = {{Rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1 = Cook |first1 = Richard |author-link1 = Richard Cook (journalist) |last2 = Morton |first2 = Brian |author-link2 = Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title = [[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year = 2008 |edition = 9th |publisher = [[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn = 978-0-141-03401-0 |page = 436 }}</ref>
}}