Recorded inwards 1972 too released inwards 1973 amongst artist/herbie-hancock-mn0000957296">Herbie Hancock, artist/stanley-clarke-mn0000745316">Stanley Clarke, too artist/jack-dejohnette-mn0000104388">Jack DeJohnette, artist/joe-farrell-mn0000125160">Joe Farrell's Moon Germs was a foray into the electrical side of jazz. On the opener, "Great George," artist/farrell-mn0000125160">Farrell leads off amongst the hint of a tune earlier careening into legato streams of idea along striated intervallic paths. artist/dejohnette-mn0000104388">DeJohnette is similar a machine gun, quadruple-timing the ring equally artist/clarke-mn0000745316">Clarke moves against the grain inwards a serial of fours too eights, too artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock's attempts to decease along the entire affair anchored are most for naught. On the championship rails at that spot is to a greater extent than of a funk backdrop, exactly the complex, angular runs too insane harmonic reaches artist/farrell-mn0000125160">Farrell attempts on his soprano, crack, falter, too ultimately plough into something else; the sheer busy-ness of the rails is dazzling. "Bass Folk Song" past times artist/clarke-mn0000745316">Clarke, is the solely affair on the tape that actively engages tune rather than harmonic structures. artist/farrell-mn0000125160">Farrell uses his flute too artist/hancock-mn0000957296">Hancock strides into the same sort of territory he explored amongst artist/miles-davis-mn0000423829">Miles Davis, chopping upward chordal phrases into unmarried lines too feeding them wholesale to the running span of frontmen--in this illustration artist/clarke-mn0000745316">Clarke too artist/farrell-mn0000125160">Farrell. artist/dejohnette-mn0000104388">DeJohnette uses a Latin backdrop to hang his drumming on too pursues a circular, hypnotic groove on the cymbals too toms. It's a gorgeous slice of music too utilizes an expression of infinite inside the melodic frame that the residual of these firebrand tunes practice not. This is sci-fi artist/farrell-mn0000125160">Farrell at his creative best
Moon Germs is a jazz album past times Joe Farrell, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio on Nov 21, 1972 too released on CTI Records
Track listing
- "Great Gorge" (Joe Farrell) – 11:48
- "Moon Germs" (Farrell) – 7:27
- "Time's Lie" (Chick Corea) – 8:32
- "Bass Folk Song" (Stanley Clarke) – 9:47
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