Dancing in Your Head
Occupation
- Alto Saxophone: Ornette Coleman
- Guitar: Bern Nix [1,2 ]
- Guitar: Charles Ellerbee [1,2 ]
- Bass Rudy McDaniel [1,2 ]
- Drums: Shannon Jackson [1,2 ]
- Master Musicians of Joujouka [3,4 ]
- Clarinet: Robert Palmer [3,4 ]
Dancing in Your Head is a jazz album by Ornette Coleman, on which this a changed group concept and its " new musical language " introduced.
History Album
In the early 1970s, Coleman worked with various forms of African music: in 1972, he traveled to Nigeria, where he played with Hausa musicians. In January 1973, he traveled to Morocco, where he met in the Atlas village of Joujouka with the local Master Musicians, a musical elite, who looked back on a thousand years of tradition and by an outwardly " telepathically seeming interaction " with " sudden, collectively completed tempo changes " distinguished outside the European tonal system. The musicians he had heard on recordings by Robert Palmer and spontaneously decided: "Let us move. Let us go and make a record. " With a fleet of sound engineers the CBS and his cousin, the producer James Jordan, Coleman made his way. It first came to some " more informal, tentative musical encounters ". Then Coleman conceived a work Music from the Cave with him on the trumpet and an unusually composite Orchestra of the Master Musicians on flutes, a fiddle, two Gimbris and three percussionists, in which " the group sound was the decisive factor for the first time, not the musical identity of the parties ". This work should appear with other recordings of Joujouka on a double LP on Columbia, but dropped a lot of musicians that decision of the label promising against the then only low profit margins, acoustic jazz to the victim.
For Coleman, the experience of Joujouka was formative: having either played up to that dance music, " that cramped him artistic, or his own music, which indeed gave him freedom of invention, but not those physical contact with the audience, he made his youth knew, " he experienced there a synthesis. He made it clear that he, " by used electric guitars and dance -oriented rhythms, could accomplish the same thing in our culture -. Retain the freedom and yet make the [ physical ] contact with the audience "
Since September 1973 Coleman experimented with electric groups, initially with guitarist James Blood Ulmer, from 1975 to the first occupation of prime time, with which he was to go into the studio in Paris. To all musicians he played the recordings of Joujouka, as it was to him to the changed group sound. Coleman funded the primetime recordings in Paris out of pocket before and could eventually sell for $ 85,000 to Herb Alpert's label A & M .. Besides two longer versions of Theme from a Symphony which in the symphony Skies from America called The Good Life and here was clearly nursery rhyme -like trains bears and henceforth was called Dancing in your Head, with Prime Time album also contained one of the first recordings of Joujouka, Midnight Sunrise. Presumably Coleman wanted it, " the connection between the music of Joujouka and primetime but at least hint at. "
Track list
All compositions are Ornette Coleman attributed.
Effective history
The album is considered a milestone, as the " most radical incarnation " in the career of Coleman and the first album of the so-called free funk with his new type of " group integration." Shannon Jackson plays " no backbeat stubborn, but dense polyrhythmic patterns that are more reminiscent of African drumming as the high tech - drummer of fusion music. " Even the bass player " hämmtert no monotone funk bass riffs, but invents independent lines " and the two guitarists provide a dense chordal " scrub " to the Coleman improvises without pause, " with simple repetitive riffs that he polymodal refers of course in the traditional manner to changing tonal centers. "
Groups such as Sonic Youth or the Decoding Society of Shannon Jackson have built on this album their musical concepts.
The critics of Down Beat Poll raised in their Colemans plate emerged as one of the albums of the year 1978. One of them, Joachim Ernst Berendt Dancing In Your Head negative discussed in his radio broadcasts in the southwest radio and initially embezzled in his jazz book, with even the direction the story was reversed: the trend of free radio will not set by Coleman, but by his students. Coleman but this had " taken the side of his former students " and now also play this kind of music. Very ambivalent judged Scott Yanow album. In his view, Theme from a Symphony is a pretty boring and repetitive melody, so that "it is a little difficult to hear the piece ."
Chris Kelsey was one of the album in his Allmusic essay Free Jazz: A Subjective History of the twenty most important albums of free jazz, the album was also in the Wire List The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening ) " recorded.