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

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. 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.

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”.

Track listing:
1. “Theme from a Symphony (variation one)” 15:47
2. “Theme from a Symphony (variation two)” 11:10
3. “Midnight Sunrise” 4:45
4. “Midnight Sunrise (alternate take)”

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”

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Released: 1977
Recorded: January 1973 – December 28, 1975
Length: 31:24
Label: Horizon
Producer: Ornette Coleman