Live at the Berkeley Community Theater 1972

[1][2] In a review for All About Jazz, Chris May wrote that the album "puts the final nail in the canard that Alice Coltrane was some sort of wafty harp-playing counterbalance to her husband's shamanistic saxophone," and commented: "The four tracks... are high energy work-outs totally in the spirit of John Coltrane at his most unleashed.

"[3] Aquarium Drunkard's Tyler Wilcox described the album as "beautiful, scary and transcendent" and "a major addition to the Alice Coltrane canon," and remarked that it "features the pioneering musician and her incredible band... journeying fearlessly across the astral plane.

"[6] Quarantine Content's Sam Fleming wrote that the album is "one of the most powerful live recordings you can find, and shows the importance of Coltrane and her vast musical legacy.

"[7] A reviewer for the Downtown Music Gallery stated: "The four tracks... show a group in full flight to the cosmos...

This show, in particular, is as searing a document of a spiritual group of musicians in full launch to outer space.