[12] The Boston Globe called the album "a more natural and less historically self-conscious approach to improvising on Marsalis's part.

"[17] The San Diego Union-Tribune concluded that "no single part stands out from the others, but the entire composition captures the warmth Marsalis obviously feels for the tiny village with a love of jazz.

"[18] The Los Angeles Times determined that Marsalis's trumpet playing is "filled with a pure, lighthearted, hard-swinging joie de vivre that is not always present in his more 'serious' works.

"[9] The Calgary Herald opined that The Marciac Suite "sometimes dabbles in the horn-heavy chaos of Marsalis' native New Orleans, though that often sounds calculated here.

"[10] The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD considered it "one of Wynton's happiest and most sheerly enjoyable sets.