On the album, Coltrane appears on piano and harp, and is joined by saxophonists Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp, bassists Jimmy Garrison and Cecil McBee, and drummers Ed Blackwell and Clifford Jarvis.

[1][2][3] The album, which consists of a single track documenting a performance of John Coltrane's "Africa", was recorded at a benefit for Swami Satchidanda's Integral Yoga Institute that also featured Laura Nyro and The New Rascals.

[4][3] Regarding Coltrane's band, a concert reviewer for Billboard wrote: "This was one of the greatest assemblages to appear on the Carnegie Hall stage.

"[8] Tyler Wilcox of Pitchfork called the album "a wild, extended roller coaster ride through John's 'Africa,' featuring bracing solos from Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp," and commented: "Carnegie Hall would never be the same.

"[10] A writer for Pan African Music stated that the album "is a splendid and ecstatic memento of spiritual jazz with some of its greatest masters.