Lonely woman
Lonely Woman is a jazz song that Ornette Coleman composed as an instrumental title in 1959. At the instigation of John Lewis , Margo Guryan wrote a text in 1961. The ballad became a jazz standard .
Structure and structure
The structure of the theme in D minor is clearly based on the classical song form AABA. In the original instrumental version, which was recorded on Coleman's album The Shape of Jazz to Come 1959, the blues-tinged melody of the A section is performed out of tempo ; the B part is a rhythmic riff . However, no harmony and no clock structure is given.
Impact history
The first version with lyrics was recorded in 1961 by singer Chris Connor with brass instruments Phil Woods , Oliver Nelson and Sol Schlinger and published on her album Free Spirits (Atlantic 8061). For this purpose, the B part was recomposed by Margo Guryan.
As early as 1962, the Modern Jazz Quartet took over the composition as the title track of one of their albums (Atlantic 1381), which also contained a second third-party composition. In the same year the pianist of the Modern Jazz Quartet , John Lewis, also recorded the composition in Europe with Svend Asmussen ( European Encounter , Atlantic 1392).
These few “recordings were enough to make Lonely Woman a classic.” Parallel to other recordings by Coleman (1972, with singer Asha Puthli ) and his environment (such as the band Old and New Dreams 1979, by Charlie Haden with Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell 1989 or James Blood Ulmer 1996) the piece was taken over by the avant-garde on the one hand: Here there are recordings by Lester Bowie , Billy Bang , Ignaz Schick , Hugh Ragin and Ran Blake (who already featured the piece on the European tour in 1963 Jeanne Lee had in the program and deconstructed). Diamanda Galas has created a poignant vowel version (La Serpenta Canta) without resorting to the existing text .
The piece has also been interpreted in more conventional ways. The vocal versions by Freda Payne , Ingrid Sertso , Linda Sharrock , Ann Dyer (1995) and Radka Toneff (1981 in Hamburg) should be emphasized. Chris Connor also recorded the number with Stan Kenton . Branford Marsalis interpreted Lonely Woman consistently out of tempo for sixteen minutes . The piece was recorded by numerous other interpreters such as Stephen Scott / Kenny Garrett , Joshua Redman and Marian McPartland .
In 1990 John Zorn and his band Naked City recorded a rocking, rhythmic version in which the main melody is stretched to 18 bars. The piece was recorded earlier beyond the jazz world: Amon Düül II interpreted it on the album Hijack (1974) with his own text “in dance school Latin rhythm”. In 1987 the Kronos Quartet played a version arranged by Mel Graves in 7/4 time a.
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Schaal (Ed.): Jazz standards. The encyclopedia. 3rd, revised edition. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1414-3 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ "Lonely in the night she wonders / Who can she tell of her heartache". Quote by H.-J. Schaal, Jazz-Standards , p. 287
- ↑ a b c H.-J. Schaal, Jazz-Standards , p. 286f.
- ↑ Chris Connor: The Atlantic Years (AllAboutJazz)
- ^ "Why Are You Blue" was written by another graduate of the Lenox School of Jazz , Gary McFarland . See discography Lenox School of Music ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Atlantic Recording Catalog: 1300 series
- ↑ Recording by Hessischer Rundfunk from April 20, 1963
- ↑ Baby blue prog reviews: Hijack
