[1] On the album, Taylor guided a group of 13 musicians through his challenging score, yielding "such a music that at every instant a oneness, a shifting feeling of coherence remains distinct that, especially in the processes of free jazz, is so easily abandoned in favour of a destructive type of playing or solo eruptions, or grating conversations, or minimalistic 'coasting'.

"[3] The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek states "Legba Crossing is a conceptual work, built from ground up, utilizing specifically the considerable young talent he had in front of him.

The reeds and percussion hold forth not as solo instruments so much but as spiritual mainstays, keeping the music rooted in a kind of jazz that hadn't been heard even in Europe for a very long time...

[4] Steve Vickery, writing for Coda, commented: "The ensemble's performance of Legba Crossing makes for an interesting test of young players' abilities to adapt to a score that is only partly fleshed out, and requires that their interpretive skills be finely tuned.

"[7] In an article for Pitchfork, Seth Colter Walls wrote: "There are passages of collective squall here, but in its best moments, you can hear a sense of dawning discovery, as subsections of the group try out Taylor's serpentine motifs and steadily gain control over them before individual players dare to contribute fluttering improvisations.