It features John Tchicai on alto saxophone, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Reggie Workman on bass, and Milford Graves on percussion.

On June 13, 1999, nearly 35 years after their inception, the NYAQ reunited for a performance at the Bell Atlantic Jazz Festival, opening for Sonic Youth.

[4] In a review for AllMusic, Steve Loewy wrote: "the group ... sounds as fresh and, yes, revolutionary as it did back in the heyday of 1960s radicalism.

Baraka crafts his poems with shocking alacrity, spewing sounds of the angry prophet in deceptively soothing salve.

Rudd, who takes me back to Steve Lacy and their interpretations of Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols, plays with such superb vocalization while Graves's throaty accompaniment of his percussion leaves a magic picture in the minds eye.