[1] Worrell was later replaced by various other bassists, including Reggie Workman, Finn Von Eyben, Harold Dodson, Eddie Gómez, Steve Swallow, and Buell Neidlinger.
[2] In November 1962, Tchicai moved from his home country of Denmark to New York City at the suggestion of Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon, whom he had met at the Helsinki Jazz Festival earlier that year.
[9][4][10] In November, the NYAQ recorded their first album as part of ESP Disk's original roster of jazz artists,[11][12] and a month later they performed at the Dixon-organized festival "Four Days in December" as the "Roswell Rudd - John Tchicai Quartet", playing opposite Sun Ra at Judson Hall.
[7] In 2013, after Tchicai's death,[22] Triple Point Records released a limited-edition five-LP box set, along with a 156-page coffee-table book and miscellaneous artifacts, entitled Call It Art.
"[3] David Toop described the group's signature sound as "deliberately ragged, bleary themes tumbling out in spasms, notes tailing away as if lost to daydream, the music so open that total collapse seems perpetually imminent".