Reception
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| Penguin Guide to Jazz | |
| Allmusic | |
Quintet / Sextet received overall positive reception. Davis' biographer Peter Wießmüller said that this album is "way more straightlined and intensive than Blue Moods, released four weeks prior", and "the pendulum in Miles' stilistical progression hits to the direction of the experimential workup of the bebop into a closed hardbop concept, and conservative as well as progressive elements are getting fused with each other; (...) the subtile arrangements of Blue Moods are yielded towards a certain expressive hardness".
The saxophonist McLean is encouraged from his background musicians to markedly long and phantastic solo plays in the typical arrangements of "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March". The short session is revived through "the excellent vibraphone play by Milt Jackson and Jackie McLean's extroverted alt phrasing, which emphasizes Bird's heritage more than before, greatly revive the musical scene."
Critics Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars in Penguin Guide to Jazz. Scott Yanow from Allmusic only gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, and stated it was "one of the most obscure of Prestige recordings", but its quality is still "fairly high". He named "Dr. Jackle" and "Minor March" as his highlights.
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