Almost all of them had been previously issued on the Kulu Sé Mama ("Dusk Dawn") CD reissue and on The Mastery of John Coltrane, Vol.

An AllMusic review states: "The album has the spacious intensity of Trane's latter-day compositions that jar, probe, and bend the horizontal and vertical dimensions of his earlier music while finding stability in the seasoned vigor of the band.

It has the searching, mysterious quality of a mantra unlocking unseen doors, and recalls the waxing fire of A Love Supreme's 'Resolution.'

'Untitled 90320' offers perhaps the most free environment of the five cuts, with McCoy hanging chordal fragments in thin air as Elvin sympathizes energetically with Trane's excursions into unexplored harmonic vistas.

"[3] Pitchfork's Ryan Schreiber wrote: "What's amazing about these tracks is that they hadn't been compiled earlier because, as a record, Living Space ranks among Coltrane's best... From the vaults comes a gem so shiny that it'll blind you if you look directly into it.