Blues Forever received reviews only from The Penguin Guide to Jazz, who called the album "Abrams's crowning achievement", and The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide.
Blues Forever is an album by Muhal Richard Abrams released by the Italian label Black Saint in 1982 and featuring performances of seven of Abrams compositions by an eleven-member big band. The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 4 stars stating, "Although every arrangement doesn't click, the band successfully romps and stomps through enough cuts to show that the big band sound doesn't just mean "ghost" groups recreating dusty numbers from the 1930s and 1940s." The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide called the album "Abrams's crowning achievement". The Penguin Guide to Jazz described it as "a sparkling big-band date with some demanding charts and a vivid sub-current of the blues". 
