Brian Morton stated: "Celebrated Blazons is another of the great Taylor records, not least because it finds him working with a group... that unmistakably restores his jazz lineage, but takes it off on a rhythmic and harmonic axis at right angles to the classic Lyons/Cyrille partnership. Where Cyrille flowed like the Niger, Tony Oxley plays musical quanta, packets of metrical heat and light that are impossible to count and measure. Where the older group dispensed with a double bass, William Parker provides a rich accompaniment, the most resonant, symphonic playing since the heyday of Richard Davis, who was Eric Dolphy’s favorite bassist for a time"
