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"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.

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"Lonely Woman"
Instrumental by Ornette Coleman
from the album The Shape of Jazz to Come
Released	1959 (1959)
Recorded	May 22, 1959
Length	4:59
Label	Atlantic (1317)
Composer(s)	Ornette Coleman
Producer(s)	Nesuhi Ertegun

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
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
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	Greg Malcolm	Homesick for Nowhere	[8]
2005	Joshua Redman	Momentum
2007	Basquiat Strings	Basquiat Strings
2009	Miroslav Vitous Group w/ Michel Portal	Remembering Weather Report
2011	Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn	Woman
2011	Brad Mehldau and Kevin Hays	Modern Music
2013	Benoît Delbecq and Fred Hersch	Fun House

References

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