"Pitchfork" ranked "20 Jazz Funk Greats" at number 91 on its list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1970s. UK magazine "Fact" named it the best album of the 1970s, writing that "This album is a rupture. It's an open crack into the unpronounceable dimensions into which tumble important streams of 20th century pop, art and underground culture, to seethe around each other, mingling, festering, sprouting new and unpredictable forms which in turn would ooze out to infest vast sections of what comes after."