The
AllMusic review by Matt Collar awarded the album 4 stars stating:"Enrico Rava's debut for ECM, 1975's
The Pilgrim and the Stars, is a stellar progressive jazz effort from the Italian trumpeter who was then just coming into his own... This is just the kind of contemplative and experimental Euro-jazz that ECM made its name on, but with some seriously cinematic post-bop guts. In that sense,
The Pilgrim and the Stars sounds something akin to a soundtrack to a '70s neo-noir film—albeit a deliciously avant-garde one." ==Track listing==