Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century - "...ground zero of the free jazz movement, boasting not only the leader's liberated sax work, but his most famous melody, the immortal 'Lonely Woman'...", 5 stars out of 5 - "The music swings hard, adheres to the theme-solos-theme format and exhibits great wit, beauty and melancholy by turns."
