Lonely Woman is a jazz standard and instrumental composition.
In a 1997 interview of Ornette Coleman by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, Coleman spoke on the composition’s inspiration:
Before becoming known as a musician, when I worked in a big department store, one day, during my lunch break,...
Lyrics for this song have yet to be released
Lonely Woman was written by Ornette Coleman.
Lonely Woman was produced by Nesuhi Ertegün.
In a 2005 interview with Andy Hamilton for The Wire magazine, Coleman gave a separate explanation for the song’s inspiration.
HAMILTON:
How did you come up with that amazing melody for “Lonely Woman”, which you played as an encore?
COLEMAN:
That was in the 50s – 1959 or something. I had gotten t...