Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating "McDuff had an excellent quartet for this mid-1960s soul-jazz outing... Nothing remarkable, just very enjoyable, high-spirited genre music".

Here it is kicked into high gear with a hard Latin groove pumped out by an excellent quartet led by the keyboardist Miles Dalto.

Here it offers an excellent quartet of women's voices familiar from recordings for Harmonia Mundi France and from appearances elsewhere.

Her mouth falls open, and she gasps in amazement as her thoughts are expressed and developed in dialogues that challenge the resources of the other three musicians in her excellent quartet.

The excellent male vocal quartet Hudson Shad sang the extensive choral parts.

But it is not likely to be heard in performances much better than those to be expected from this excellent quartet of women's voices, or in settings much more appropriate than the Cloisters.

This excellent quartet seemed eager to frame Beethoven's great explorations in terms of their port of origin.

This excellent quartet made a strong impression at its recent recital at the Frick Collection.

Appearing in one of the city's finest halls for chamber music, this excellent quartet offers a treat of a program.

The Weill's excellent male quartet included Gregory Cross, Wei-Long Tao, Scott Wilde and Mr. Workman.