Scott's playing on this particular album should disprove all the "naughty" things people said about him, about his being too active, getting in people's way; because the one thing about Scotty, with all his technique, was that he had a perceptivity, which let him use it judiciously. He started this record by playing on the first beat of every bar. He wasn't even playing in two, and any man who has that much technique, who knows where to limit himself, to me, is just great.

Reviewing a "live recording of the Bill Evans Trio performing "My Foolish Heart," as quoted in "Clare Fischer: Blindfold Test" by Leonard Feather, in Downbeat (October 25, 1962), p. 39