The album, which consists of a single track documenting a performance of John Coltrane's "Africa", was recorded at a benefit for Swami Satchidanda's Integral Yoga Institute that also featured Laura Nyro and The New Rascals.[4][3] Regarding Coltrane's band, a concert reviewer for Billboard wrote: "This was one of the greatest assemblages to appear on the Carnegie Hall stage."[5]
In 2021, the album was reissued by the Alternative Fox label with the title Live at Carnegie Hall, 1971.[6]
In a review for All About Jazz, Chris May wrote: "The performance has much of the ferocity of the original recording, Africa / Brass," but noted that "Sanders and Shepp cannot match the massed intensity of the original frontline."[8]
Tyler Wilcox of Pitchfork called the album "a wild, extended roller coaster ride through John's 'Africa,' featuring bracing solos from Pharoah Sanders and Archie Shepp," and commented: "Carnegie Hall would never be the same."[9]
A reviewer for Doom and Gloom from the Tomb commented: "It's an intense ride, as perhaps is obvious from the players involved! Recording quality is excellent, capturing an historic occasion."[10]
A writer for Pan African Music stated that the album "is a splendid and ecstatic memento of spiritual jazz with some of its greatest masters. The splitting horns, wild drums, and clamouring piano are a vivid display of virtuosity in motion."[11]