Ornette Coleman's Dancing In Your Head album came out in 1977 while I was in college. At the time, it was considered a controversial record.
Even among my fellow university jazz aficionados, the album was not well received. "It's not only not jazz," I was told, "it's not even music!"
"Just . . . listen . . . to it," they complained, to which I replied, "Yes, just listen to it!" Polyrhythms and harmolodic funk were still relatively new then, and it's taken literally decades for the public to catch up to what Coleman was doing in 1977.
Theme From a Symphony was the album's opening cut, and got some limited airplay on WBUR's late-night jazz programming.
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