Of Human Feelings is an 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 band Prime Time (pictured), 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 the same year and was the first jazz album to be recorded digitally in the United States. The album's jazz-funk music continued Coleman's harmolodic approach to improvisation with Prime Time. He also drew on rhythm and blues influences from earlier in his career, and 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 the album 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.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1792:
The French highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person to be executed by guillotine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Jacques_Pelletier
1915:
First World War: The Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Anzac Cove while British and French troops landed at Cape Helles to begin the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallipoli_campaign
1960:
The U.S. Navy submarine Triton completed the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sandblast
2015:
An earthquake registering 7.8 Mw struck Nepal, resulting in approximately 9,000 deaths and 22,000 injuries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2015_Nepal_earthquake
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chur: 1. (New Zealand, informal) A strong voicing of agreement, approval, or thanks: awesome!, cheers!, ta!, thanks!. 2. (New Zealand, informal) A parting salutation: bye, see you later. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chur
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Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that he felt this simplicity very strongly and directly during his discovery of the theory of relativity. Admittedly, this is a far cry from the contents of religion. I don't believe Einstein is tied to any religious tradition, and I rather think the idea of a personal God is entirely foreign to him. But as far as he is concerned there is no split between science and religion: the central order is part of the subjective as well as the objective realm, and this strikes me as being a far better starting point. --Wolfgang Pauli https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Pauli