Of Human Feelings

Of Human Feelings
Studio album by Ornette Coleman
Released	1982 (1982)
Recorded	April 25, 1979
Studio	CBS Studios in New York City
Genre	Jazz-funk, free jazz, funk, jazz fusion
Length	36:21
Label	Antilles
Producer	Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman chronology
Body Meta (1978)Body Meta1978 Of Human Feelings (1982) Opening the Caravan of Dreams (1985)Opening the Caravan of Dreams1985

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide
Spin Alternative Record Guide	10/10
The Village Voice	A+

Of Human Feelings is a 1982 studio album by American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Ornette Coleman. It was recorded on April 25, 1979, at CBS Studios in New York City with his Prime Time band, which featured guitarists Charlie Ellerbee and Bern Nix, bassist Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and drummers Calvin Weston and Coleman's son Denardo. It followed the saxophonist's failed attempt to record a direct-to-disc session earlier in March 1979 and was the first jazz album to be recorded digitally in the United States.

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 generally praised the album's expressive music and harmolodic approach, but it 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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