Dancing In Your Head (studio album) by Ornette Coleman

Dancing In Your Head by Ornette Coleman
Year: 1977
Overall rank: 6,516th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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76/100 (from 33 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1977 (98th)
Award Top albums of the 1970s (1,032nd)
Award Best albums of all time (6,516th)
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Ornette Coleman bestography

Dancing In Your Head is ranked 4th best out of 35 albums by Ornette Coleman on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Ornette Coleman is The Shape Of Jazz To Come which is ranked number 445 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,890.

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2025replacementlevelTop 50 Music Albums of 197727/502
2025MaxStorm98Top 56 Music Albums of 197753/560
2025cicadelicTop 64 Music Albums of 197761/640
2025HyggevinylTop 56 Music Albums of 19771/565
2025HyggevinylTop 100 Greatest Music Albums20/10080
2025HyggevinylTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s5/10019
2025 HaydenTop 100 Music Albums of 197748/1003
2025 neilgeeTop 100 Music Albums of 197758/1002
2025pjerskeTop 100 Music Albums of the 1970s93/1002
2025ElauqsapidTop 78 Music Albums of 197767/781
2025JohnnyoAlbums of the year 1977 by Acclaimed Music45/65 -
2025 RockyRaccoonTop 78 Music Albums of 197746/782
2024AlienCinemaTop 100 Music Albums of 197785/1001
2024JohnnyoGreatest albums of the '70's (201 - 300) by U R C3/100 -
2024PurpleHazelTop 42 Music Albums of 19774/425
2024 Jboy56Top 100 Music Albums of 197754/1002
2024LosWochosTop 100 Music Albums of 197788/1001
2023LosWochosDie besten Jazz-Platten aller Zeiten by Musikexpress.de (2018)37/50 -
2023cicadelicRobert Christgau: Dean's List 197711/30 -
2023LosWochosDie 100 besten Jazz-Alben by Rolling Stone Deutschland (2013)78/100 -
Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 36
Total Rank Score: The total rank score. 198

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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.5.

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This is as if someone took Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and lit it on fire.
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An essential masterpiece that captures Ornette's Prime Time early peak as a psychedelic jamming unit. They developed and transformed this beautiful music throughout the 70's and 80's and delivered Body Meta (Check out the deeply hypnotic opening track Voice Poetry) and Of Human Feelings, probably the towering achievement of Coleman's harmolodic music.
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