If a listener is "in the mood", he wrote, "it's majestic and compelling; if you're not, it's interminable and pretentious." In Gayford's own appraisal for The Daily Telegraph, he argued that it "marked the point at which jazz—for good or ill—ceased for a while to be hip and cool, becoming instead mystical and messianic". Christgau, writing in 2020, said, "it's meditative rather than freewheeling, with each member of his classic quartet instructed to embark on his own harmonically mapped excursion and the title set to a chanted four-note melody you could hum in your sleep. I'm on my fourth consecutive play with no signs of tune fatigue as I write, plus my wife loves it. All true, all remarkable. But how much you value it, I expect, depends on how much faith you place in your own spirituality." He concluded that the next time he will listen to the album "may well depend on who dies when". Track listing All tracks composed by John Coltrane and published by Jowcol Music (BMI) Original LP Side one Side two 2002 deluxe edition Disc one Disc two The Complete Masters (2015) Disc 1 – The Original Stereo Album, Impulse! AS-77 "Acknowledgement" – 7:42 "Resolution" – 7:20 "Pursuance" – 10:41 "Psalm" – 7:05 – Original Mono Reference Masters "Pursuance" – 10:42 "Psalm" – 7:02 Disc 2 – Quartet Session, December 9, 1964 "Acknowledgement" (vocal overdub 2) – 2:00 "Acknowledgement" (vocal overdub 3) – 2:05 "Resolution" (take 4/ alternate) – 7:25 "Resolution" (take 6/ breakdown) – 2:13 "Psalm" (undubbed version) – 6:59 – Sextet Session, December 10, 1964 "Acknowledgement" (Take 1 / alternate) – 9:24 "Acknowledgement" (Take 2 / alternate) – 9:47 "Acknowledgement" (Take 3 / breakdown with studio dialogue) – 1:26 "Acknowledgement" (Take 4 / alternate) – 9:04 "Acknowledgement" (Take 5 / false start) – 0:34 "Acknowledgement" (Take 6 / alternate) – 12:33 Disc 3 – Live at Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965 Introduction by André Francis and John Coltrane – 1:13 "Acknowledgement (Live)" – 6:12 "Resolution (Live)" – 11:37 "Pursuance (Live)" – 21:30 "Psalm (Live)" – 8:49 Disc 3 is included only with the "Super Deluxe Edition" version of this release. Personnel The John Coltrane Quartet John Coltrane – bandleader, liner notes, vocals, tenor saxophone Jimmy Garrison – double bass Elvin Jones – drums, gong, timpani McCoy Tyner – piano Additional personnel Archie Shepp – tenor saxophone on alternate takes