In Paris, Aries 1973 is a live album by the Black Artists Group, featuring saxophonist Oliver Lake, trumpeters Baikida Carroll and Floyd LeFlore, trombonist Joseph Bowie, and drummer Charles "Bobo" Shaw.

"[6] He concluded: "In Paris is a welcome addition to a small and brilliant canon of mature, atmospheric album-length freedom jazz works... by a pan-idiomatic and boundary-free hive mind of spiritually connected virtuosi.

"[6] In an article for Fact Magazine, Jon Dale wrote: "it's a scorching set, moving from relatively denuded passages for multiple percussion and snake-charming sax, through to more reflective, intimate improvisations.

"[9] Regarding "Something to Play On," author Max Brzezinski commented that it "creates a cacophony of rhythm out of pieces of metal and found percussion–it, like the best of the free jazz, is more spirited, even aggressively so, than the 'spiritual' tag might suggest.

"[11] Thurston Moore included the recording in his "Top Ten from the Free Jazz Underground" list (first published in 1995 in the second issue of the defunct Grand Royal Magazine), writing: "This is squeaky, spindly stuff and very OPEN and a good indication of what was happening in the early 70's.