351:'s retrospective review is laudatory, saying the album "is a powerful one, unleashing each member's instrumental prowess at one point while consolidating each talent to form an explosive outpouring of progressive jazz/rock the next." They highly praised the variety and uniqueness of each song, the playing of the musicians, and the group's ability to create a blend of jazz, rock, and classical elements that was unconventional yet accessible. They concluded "the album never strays from its intensity or its creativity", and added that
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329:John Mayall
325:Mick Taylor
296:jazz fusion
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182:Jazz fusion
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245:chronology
236:Gerry Bron
163:March 1969
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1335:Anthology
1176:Jim Roche
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214:Fontana
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