Dancing in Your Head

Dancing in Your Head is a studio album by Ornette Coleman, released in 1977 by Horizon Records.^[8]

Dancing in Your Head
Studio album by Ornette Coleman
Released	1977
Recorded	January 1973 – December 28, 1975
Genre	Jazz fusion[1] jazz-funk[2] free jazz[3] free funk
Length	31:24
Label	Horizon
Producer	Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman chronology
To Whom Who Keeps a Record (1975) Dancing in Your Head (1977) Soapsuds, Soapsuds (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]
Rolling Stone	(favorable)[5]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[6]
Tom Hull	A[7]
The Village Voice	A[8]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[9]

Recording

The two variations on "Theme from a Symphony" were the first recordings to feature Coleman's electric band, which later became known as Prime Time. The symphony referenced in the title of the two tracks is Coleman's Skies of America.

William S. Burroughs was present for the recording of "Midnight Sunrise",^[10] which was recorded with the Master Musicians of Jajouka in 1973. The compact disc reissue features an alternate take of this composition which is not present on the vinyl or earlier CD issue.

Release

Dancing in Your Head was released on Horizon Records in 1977. In 2000, it was remastered and re-released on A&M/Verve/Universal Records.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

Dancing in Your Head was voted the 15th best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll for 1977.^[11] It was the first album by a jazz artist to make the poll. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it number 11 on his own year-end list.^[12]

The album was identified by Chris Kelsey in his Allmusic essay "Free Jazz: A Subjective History" as one of the "20 Essential Free Jazz Albums".^[3]

Legacy

"Midnight Sunrise" was featured in the 1991 film Naked Lunch.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

Side A

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Theme from a Symphony (variation one)"	15:47

Side B

No.	Title	Length
2.	"Theme from a Symphony (variation two)"	11:10
3.	"Midnight Sunrise"	4:45
Total length:		31:24

2000 CD bonus track

No.	Title	Length
4.	"Midnight Sunrise (alternate take)"	3:49
Total length:		35:31

Personnel

• Ornette Coleman - alto saxophone
• Bern Nix - electric guitar
• Charlie Ellerbee - electric guitar
• Jamaaladeen Tacuma - bass guitar
• Shannon Jackson - drums
• Robert Palmer - clarinet on "Midnight Sunrise"
• Master Musicians of Jajouka on "Midnight Sunrise"