After his association with CTI ended,
Joe Farrell made two weak and rather commercial sets for Warner Bros., of which this LP is the second. Although
Farrell gets in a few good spots on tenor, soprano and flute, the strictly for-the-money arrangements of
Trevor Lawrence and the excess of musicians sinks this effort. The version of
Stevie Wonder's "Another Star" is dominated by dull "background" vocalists; most songs have instantly dated funk played by the rhythm section, and the talents of keyboardists
Herbie Hancock and
Victor Feldman are wasted. Only a three-and-a-half-minute unaccompanied tenor solo on "Come Rain or Come Shine" by
Farrell still sounds good 20 years later. ~ Scott Yanow