Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head: Classic or Dud?

I've spent all week listening to Prime Time, Shannon Jackson, Blood, and Tacuma. I feel like we need a catch-all Prime Time tree thread.

Looks like this one is growing that way, but go ahead if you wanna, NTI.

(Tacuma mentioned recently on Twitter that he taped a bunch of his Prime Time gigs: noisy tapes, but he still listens.)

(Think it was his Walkman!)

That's so awesome. It's possible I mentioned this upthread or elsewhere, but bunch of years ago, Tacuma mistakenly emailed me asking if I could engineer a recording of his because he had flown a bunch of dudes out to do a record and the studio had double-booked with John Zorn. I told him he had the wrong me (I have kind of a generic email address) but that I knew who he was and was a big fan. He seemed kind of both shocked and touched.

Re. the thread, I may do that ... or not. I just feel like the harmolodic funk scene is on some level an important body of work that hasn't really gotten the full-on critical reassessment other records of the era have (I still remember John Litweiler in A Harmolodic Life hilariously describing Prime Time's drummers "emphasizing the two and the four" as if using terms like "4/4" or, gasp, "funk" was verboten).

(Maybe he got some pushback for describing, I think it was Of Human Feeling, as an amazing disco record in The Freedom Principle?)

Great story! Yeah, do the thread!

Or not---no pressure---but at least we got this one.