Hey Jazz Douchebags! Post a version or several of "Lonely Woman"

It sounds like you're breaking up with them.

Thanks, I got a couple more around here, I think, that I'll post when I find 'em - Old and New Dreams for sure, maybe some others. I hope someone who has the Amon Duul and MJQ versions will post those, too.

Then maybe we can move on to some other standards!

ok, here's a better offering, the 8 Bold Souls version from their 1991 record Sideshow, their 2nd of three and in my opinion their best. I love all of them but was *slightly* disappointed in Last Option. still think Sideshow is where they really nailed things...

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1J0VOIO7PVOIC0VIMV437R6TN8

I'm hoping some kind soul will post the Brotzmann version, as I don't have that record and have never heard it.

Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02SJAOYTN0UNH1CC9SB7H7OU3H

... and its accompanying remix by Glands of External Secretion:

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G2SCFMQPG3UH048LT0WORJOCN

... taken from their joint album on VHF records.

Excellent thread, by the way. A few months back I was thinking how great it would be to have a compilation of Lonely Womans, but I was too lazy and not enough of a douchebag to apply myself to it. It's good to have this thread doing the work for me.

Am I the only one who thinks that a version with someone throat singing the melody would be just about the raddest thing ever?

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0WYTC3FRVQHEH0BYG7TE6BZKUF

for those not in the know, Old and New Dreams was a group consisting of Coleman's classic quartet with Dewey Redman instead of Ornette.

Leaving off the Takayanagi version, the eleven that I have now add up to 79:42.

I really like the idea of Jazz Douchebags rolling series of threads for multiple versions. I'm changing my vote from "Giant Steps" to "Take the A Train," because there's a solo piano version by Sun Ra that I heard once, that completely blew my mind.

I can't say the same:

Hey Jazz Douchebags! Post a version or several of "Caravan"

http://s12.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1X4E9OM10BXBH287X24ORK5V19

Ken Peplowski - Lonely Woman
http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0AQJ3FM4DB8C93DJZYAC6CYDVR

I'd also love to hear the MJQ version if anyone has it.

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0FA4RI2I51SWX0IVKZKG1OV3D5

Dave Liebman, flute
Richie Beirach, piano
George Mraz, bass
Al Foster, drums

http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1UXJ0370OIFSE3HNXVSPTWSRBB

http://s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3H1MM4GYZ1HVM0I9TEZT1FSOAO

And looks great too...
http://www.vinylparadise.com/7jazz/1/1mordja1.jpg

http://s4.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=13WE9QZS6J82P23L6RV5F9SYBF

Hello, douchebags. The Billy Bang/Dennis Charles version that Doug Schulkind just played is really good.

Sorry, meant to mention that it was on WFMU. They'll probably have the show up on the archive in a couple of hours.

Ahhh, the balmy ysi days of ILM, how I miss you.

Anyway, just relieved this thread still exists because I have been listening to the Peter Brotzmann version for days without knowing what who it was. Avaialble to listen to and buy here incidentally.
http://destination-out.bandcamp.com/album/14-love-poems-plus-10-more

cool, haven't heard that.
i love that mjq version. did they do any more of ornette's songs? i know john lewis was pretty heavy into his stuff.

There's a great version of it on Marzette Watts' hella out-of-print Savoy record.

I've decided that Ornette's Lonely Woman is my favourite piece of jazz music. Not a lot seems to come close - or does it? IS there anything else out there as melodic and plaintive and slightly-skewed as this? Big question, I know.

IS there anything else out there as melodic and plaintive and slightly-skewed as this?

Yes, Cecil Taylor's version of "This Nearly Was Mine."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHkrV06oueA

Eight years later, the Amon Duul version is on youtube if yer interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCo5PoJexvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3UV9Qk7-UA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1_L-v5p-4o

Here's a version from James Blood Ulmer's Music Speaks Louder Than Words, a strange record that mixes six instrumental versions of Ornette tunes with three original blues/funk/rap songs. I believe this album features the only recordings of the Coleman compositions "Cherry Cherry" and "Street News".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsdCxshQpjQ

Marzette Watts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_B5p0dTzkk

Pretty sure that date is wrong; I believe this was recorded in 1969. Unfortunately, this has never been reissued.

marzette watts version was already mentioned!

by you! ten years ago!

here's chris connor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHbttWozOSY

lyrics written by margo guryan, interestingly enough

I played a bunch of Lonely Women on Dublab a few months back — archived here: https://www.dublab.com/archive/radio-free-aquarium-drunkard-09-19-21

tracklisting:

André Jaume / Joe McPhee, “Lonely Woman” ++ John Zorn, “Lonely Woman” ++ Radka Toneff, “Lonely Woman” ++ Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, Geri Allen, “Lonely Woman” ++ Orville Johnson, “Lonely Woman” ++ Basquiat Strings, “Lonely Woman” ++ Helen Merrill / Dick Katz, “Lonely Woman” ++ Bill Orcutt, “Lonely Woman” ++ Hugh Hopper, “Lonely Woman” ++ Aki Takase / Silke Eberhard, “Lonely Woman” ++ Marzette Watts Ensemble, “Lonely Woman” ++ Peter Brötzmann, “Lonely Woman”

marzette watts version was already mentioned!

by you! ten years ago!

Hahaha I only skimmed the thread and thought, “How did I not post the Marzette Watts version?”