Edited here by seven minutes, the full track was later released on the 1998 box set The Complete Studio Recordings of The Miles Davis Quintet 1965–1968.

"Splash" was later released unedited on The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions and the 2002 reissue of Water Babies, while a 1969 re-recording of "Sanctuary" had appeared on Bitches Brew in 1970.

The Crosby, Stills & Nash cover "Guinnevere" is taken from the same sessions in early 1970 which yielded "Great Expectations", "Orange Lady" and the Big Fun track "Lonely Fire".

"[5] Lester Bangs voted it one of 1979's ten best records in his ballot for The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop poll.

[12] "Although seemingly hodgepodge in arrangement, Circle in the Round is a brilliant examination of the depth of scope and range possessed by Miles Davis", Lindsay Planer later wrote in AllMusic.