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Of Human Feelings is a studio album by American jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was recorded on April 25, 1979, at CBS Studios in New York City with his band Prime Time, which featured guitarists Charlie Ellerbee and Bern Nix, bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and drummers Calvin Weston and Coleman's son Denardo. It followed Coleman's failed attempt to record a direct-to-disc session earlier in March 1979.

Of Human Feelings explores jazz-funk music and continues Coleman's harmolodic approach to improvisation with Prime Time, whom he introduced on his 1975 album Dancing in Your Head. He drew on rhythm and blues influences from early in his career for Of Human Feelings, which had shorter and more distinct compositions than Dancing in Your Head. Coleman also applied free jazz principles from his music during the 1960s to elements of funk.

Following a change in management, Coleman signed with Island Records, and Of Human Feelings was released in 1982 by its subsidiary label Antilles Records. Critics praised Coleman's expressive music and harmolodic approach, but the album made little commercial impact and went out of print. Coleman enlisted his son Denardo as manager after a dispute with his former managers over the album's royalties, a change that inspired him to perform publicly again during the 1980s.

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Track listing

All compositions by Ornette Coleman.

Side one

  1. "Sleep Talk"  – 3:34
  2. "Jump Street"  – 4:24
  3. "Him and Her"  – 4:20
  4. "Air Ship"  – 6:11

Side two

  1. "What Is the Name of That Song?"  – 3:58
  2. "Job Mob"  – 4:57
  3. "Love Words"  – 2:54
  4. "Times Square"  – 6:03
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Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.Template:Sfn

Musicians
Additional personnel



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