[1] The album includes a 156-page clothbound book containing liner notes by Ben Young, photos, reproductions of manuscripts, and a complete history and itinerary of the group, housed in a custom wooden box.

[2] Musicians featured on the album are saxophonist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, bassists Bob Cunningham, Don Moore, Eddie Gómez, Lewis Worrell, and Reggie Workman, and drummers J. C. Moses and Milford Graves.

[3] In a 2013 article for The New York Times, Nate Chinen wrote: "there's reason to hail Call It Art... as this year's most significant release for partisans of free jazz...

These performances... capture the band's unmistakable peak, when it stood for an airier, more collectivist ideal of open improvisation than the combustible norm at the time.

"[5] Clifford Allen, writing for Point of Departure, called the album "an extraordinary, redefining set," and commented: "the WBAI session is a valuable expansion on the NYAQ's work with Jones' poetry and captures a tense, volatile aspect of the music rarely heard elsewhere...