The music is vividly alive, churning, full of colors and textures, and relentlessly moving.

All it requires is a pair of open ears, a willingness to enter a world of musical thought that might on the surface seem alien and uncomfortable.

Ayler may well be the Johnny Dodds of the avant garde, and in my book that's high praise, perhaps the highest.

"[8] Writing for AllMusic, Scott Yanow stated that In Greenwich Village was Ayler's best Impulse!

[2] Commenting on The Complete Impulse Recordings, the authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz wrote that the sessions "are hugely affirmative and satisfyingly complete without losing a jot of Ayler's angry and premonitory force.