The album features vibraphonist and band leader Khan Jamal, saxophonist Byard Lancaster, guitarist Monnette Sudler, electric bassist Billy Mills, drummer Dwight James, conga player Rashid Salim, and percussionist Omar Hill.

However, in 2019, Dogtown issued an album, titled Unreleased, documenting a 1973 live performance at Columbia University.

Its six selections reveal a remarkable interplay between rhythmic instruments, and the incredible technical facility of Lancaster in particular.

"[1] Clifford Allen of All About Jazz stated: "Sounds of Liberation is a decidedly loose outfit, but reliant on massive and relentless vamps that at their most open offer the kind of support that gives compulsion to the squall... A multiplicity of rhythms cascade and bounce off one another, shaken, pounded, thrown and snaking their way through the airwaves...

The holy grail(s) of record collecting rarely live up to the hype that surrounds their existence, but the Sounds of Liberation go well beyond anything that could have been hoped for.