Lonely Woman (composition)
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"Lonely Woman" | |
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Instrumental by Ornette Coleman | |
from the album The Shape of Jazz to Come | |
Released | 1959 |
Recorded | May 22, 1959 |
Length | 4:59 |
Label | Atlantic (1317) |
Composer(s) | Ornette Coleman |
Producer(s) | Nesuhi Ertegun |
"Lonely Woman" is a jazz composition by Ornette Coleman. Coleman's recording of it was the opening track on his 1959 Atlantic Records album The Shape of Jazz to Come. Alongside Coleman's alto saxophone, the recording featured Don Cherry on cornet, Charlie Haden on double bass and Billy Higgins on drums.
Origin[]
In an interview with Jacques Derrida, Coleman spoke of the origin of the composition:
Before becoming known as a musician, when I worked in a big department store, one day, during my lunch break, I came across a gallery where someone had painted a very rich white woman who had absolutely everything that you could desire in life, and she had the most solitary expression in the world. I had never been confronted with such solitude, and when I got back home, I wrote a piece that I called "Lonely Woman."[1]
Other versions[]
Haden and Cherry revisited the song on Old and New Dreams (ECM, 1979), Haden doing so again on Etudes (1987) and In Angel City (1988).
Pianist John Lewis first recorded the song in January 1962 with the Modern Jazz Quartet for their album of the same name which was one of the earliest recorded covers of a Coleman number.[2][3] Later that year, in July, Lewis recorded it again for his album European Encounter.[4]
Vocal versions, with lyrics written by Margo Guryan, have been recorded by Chris Connor (1962), Freda Payne (1964, on After the Lights Go Down Low and Much More!!!) and Carola Standertskjöld (1966).
Year | Performer | Album | Source |
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1962 | Modern Jazz Quartet | Lonely Woman | [2][3] |
1965 | Denny Zeitlin with Charlie Haden | Shining Hour | [5] |
1968 | Helen Merrill and Dick Katz | A Shade of Difference | |
1969 | Marzette Watts with Patty Waters | The Marzette Watts Ensemble | |
1971 | Zurich International Festival All-Stars | From Europe with Jazz | |
1974 | Lester Bowie with Julius Hemphill | Fast Last! | [5] |
1979 | Old and New Dreams with Charlie Haden | Old and New Dreams | [5] |
1982 | Masayuki Takayanagi | Lonely Woman | discogs |
1983 | Pat Metheny | Rejoicing | The CD |
1984 | Jaki Byard | Phantasies | |
1987 | Charlie Haden with Paul Motian and Geri Allen | Etudes | |
1987 | Kronos Quartet | White Man Sleeps | |
1987 | Branford Marsalis with Kenny Kirkland | Random Abstract | [5] |
1988 | Charlie Haden | In Angel City | |
1989 | Charlie Haden | The Montreal Tapes: with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell | |
1990 | John Zorn with Bill Frisell | Naked City | [5] |
1992 | 8 Bold Souls | Sideshow | |
1992 | Radka Toneff | Live in Hamburg (recorded 1981) | [6] |
1995 | The Denison/Kimball Trio | Soul Machine | |
1997 | Andy Summers | The Last Dance of Mr. X | [7] |
1998 | J. D. Allen | In Search Of | [5] |
2002 | Homesick for Nowhere | [8] | |
2005 | Joshua Redman | Momentum | |
2007 | Basquiat Strings | Basquiat Strings | |
2009 | Miroslav Vitous Group w/ Michel Portal | Remembering Weather Report | [1] |
2011 | Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn | Woman | |
2011 | Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays | Modern Music | |
2013 | Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch | Fun House |
References[]
- ^ . Derrida Interviews Coleman Archived 2014-10-23 at the Wayback Machine accessed October 4, 2014
- ^ a b jazzdisco.org entry for Lonely Woman Archived 2018-03-14 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 14, 2018
- ^ a b Cook, S. Allmusic Review Archived 2019-09-12 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 6, 2012
- ^ jazzdisco.org entry for European Encounter Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine accessed March 14, 2018
- ^ a b c d e f Gioia, Ted (2012). The Jazz Standards. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 239–240. ISBN 978-0-19-993739-4.
- ^ "Radka Toneff: Live in Hamburg". Grappa.no. Retrieved 2021-05-03.
- ^ Robinson, Matthew. "The Last Dance of Mr. X". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 10 May 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
- ^ Theakston, Rob. "Homesick for Nowhere". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 25 April 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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