Romance with the Unseen

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[13]
The Gazette	9/10[14]
Los Angeles Times	[15]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD	[10]
Sound & Vision	[16]
The Sydney Morning Herald	[17]

The Gazette said that "Frisell's moody, impressionistic guitar serves as a perfect backdrop to Byron's clean, articulate clarinet".^[14] The Chicago Sun-Times noted that "few contemporary musicians roam the stylistic landscape as restlessly or rewardingly as clarinetist Don Byron".^[18] The Los Angeles Times opined that "despite the players' skill and the music's appeal as an intellectual exercise, the music seems unfulfilled."^[15] Sound & Vision called "I'll Follow the Sun" "one of the most beguiling jazz interpretations of the Beatles."^[16]

The Globe and Mail said that Byron's "clarinet, for all of its piping melody and pure tones, probably couldn't have carried the disc without the assistance of Frisell".^[19] The Irish Times concluded that "Byron spins a series of solos that rely for impact more on their logic and originality of line than on tone".^[20] The Independent said, "Byron's sounds are beautifully airy, on a set of free-floating tunes whose delicate treatment by the band creates a very superior form of chamber-jazz, with none of the usual stuffiness that term implies."^[21]