The Ogun Collection is a five-CD box set compilation album by The Blue Notes, featuring saxophonists Nick Moyake and Dudu Pukwana, trumpeter Mongezi Feza, pianist Chris McGregor, double bassist Johnny Dyani, and drummer Louis Moholo.
[11] In a review for The Guardian, John Fordham called the album "historic," and noted that the band's arrival in London "brought new sounds and a new attitude that had an incalculable influence.
"[9] Writing for Point of Departure, Bill Shoemaker commented: "The real power of a box set of recordings lies in it potential to alter your understanding of the history that you think you already know...
"[12] JazzWord's Ken Waxman called the Blue Notes "arguably the best jazz band to emerge fully formed from Apartheid-era South Africa," one that "energized European – especially British – jazz by intermixing African rhythms and melodies, Hard Bop styling plus emerging Free Music," and stated that the album "leaves us with many examples of the skill and excitement the band exhibited in its time.
"[13] Jason Weiss of Itineraries of a Hummingbird described the album as "marvelous," and remarked: "Though the band had effectively broken up as a working ensemble by the late '60s, still it reunited occasionally: the Ogun box demonstrates their unique longevity, that of a family bond forged in exile.