Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman

[neverstillhere]

giving me shivers

[vibearato]

this is amazing

[alexmortland]

This would be a fantastic little piece of dark moody warped jazz if Don Cherry had bothered to tune his fawking tooter. Bummer.

[DaFenceBoyz]

Probably the most influential jazz album of all time since it basically gave birth to a whole new genre by merely 6 songs.

[robertjasoncross]

What a wonderful control of the emotional quality of sound.

[wreyoG]

some lady about 10 years ago asked me what kind of music i listen to...i said jazz..she said : that is the devils music...

still makes me laugh when i think of it..jazz is the only music that relaxes me (be it free or hard bop), reaches the depth of my soul and makes me feel human...

something about the damn horns

oh and i have no idea where that lady is right now, but i;m guessing she's missing a lot by never having heard heavenly albums like A Love Supreme, Kind of Blue and Song forMyFather

[DoctorHadoken]

@wreyoG you must live in an awfully undeveloped area for people to still consider jazz "the devil's music" as if it were still the early 1900's

[wreyoG]

@DoctorHadoken it wasnt "people" it was just one woman...

cheers pal

[DoctorHadoken]

@wreyoG I used it as a general term, smartass

[hbscone]

@yourockets3 I agree with that. I meant it emotionally... not literally. People can hear and think what they want. But I will say this: jazz today is primarily appreciated by a bunch of jive white boys who sit around acting like they're listening to Schoenberg. I'm also not saying that contemporary classical didn't influence some jazz artists. I'm saying that jazz is an ORIGINAL creation, not a copy... that its soul is blues... and that Ornette is a bluesman just as much as a jazz artist.

[rdw7300]

Its interesting to compare Coleman's free jazz to Coltrane's. You can almost feel the music evolving as it reaches into your ear and passes through your body.

[randomness1234ist]

i play the saxophone it is a very wonderful instrument but hard to play at first but my middle school music teacher showed me how to play ( :

[Chocola127]

This is like, the epitome of blues.

[ThaKunzlermichael]

Sounds hip, like first hip

[xbertocoaylax]

stimulated higher thinking.

[FrontDeskMatt]

When I listened to this in my Survey of Jazz class back in College, I actually remember it being far more chaotic. I actually kinda like this...  I didn't when I heard it back so many years ago.

[DanieruKoyama]

There are implied chords but technically there is none

[yourockets3]

@DanieruKoyama it's a drone with a bridge - in later versions the bridge is avoided (except for thematic statement) and the drone tend to be less focused :)

[jamaskio]

"Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" FZ

[Ibakebiscuits]

@takinyele I don't think there is a chord progression in this. haha

[TCharlieA]

@Ibakebiscuits I think he was joking lol

[kijjaz]

@Ibakebiscuits The melody creates the feel of chord progression.

[leonardrashid]

the one and only, this cut is timeless truely Ornette is so far ahead of time wow !

[blackandtanful]

ﾛﾝﾘｰ･ｳｰﾏﾝ～スイマセン!オーネット･コールマン様､こ­の美しさ認識に10年かかった!"ｼﾞｬｽﾞ遅くに来たるべきも­の?!" #jazzm

[oOZetsubouOo]

Fantastic. I love this tune.

[chriss1152]

one of the best sax players

[takinyele]

can any one hook me up with the chord progression to this

[DaFenceBoyz]

I never understood why they play off-rhythm in this song.... Beautiful piece nonetheless.

[maisqpoesia9999lcg]

Very, very beautiful!!!!!!

[slye1991]

where es el piano?

[Quantumjiters]

Anyone else hearing bits and pieces of Round Midnight in this song? 1:01 and 0:35?

[umbrellashotgunman]

Oddly enough, when I listen to the early Coleman tracks like this one, I fail to see where the complaints had come from; Coleman is an excellent melodist, and if you played his solo here out in the street, most people would probably just think you were a (brilliant) blues-style jazz musician.

[amazinero]

This does sound like a lonely woman.  Or a suicidal man.

[kazoorocketman54]

I've been trying to get into jazz, and I LOVE this. I'm wondering if anyone could throw any recommendations at me from jazz musicians that might be similar to this kind of work by Ornette Coleman. :)

[crookedmelody1]

@kazoorocketman54 Depending on what era you want to look into, there are lots. To start, you might want to look at Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie....the list goes on and on

[ThePeanutSammy]

@kazoorocketman54 pharoah sanders- the creator has a master plan, sun ra- space is the place, coltrane- a love supreme

[cosmic53]

How I like this masterpiece, it makes my soul fly

[nobodady1]

a desert island choice for me.

[CharlyGanja]

il suo sax e stupendo

sempre 1000 soddisfazioni

dove sono i fiati nella musica odierna?

il fiato è espressivita- tromba, sax, clarinetto, flauto o qualsiasi.

[iyequertu54]

coleman plays with heart and feeling. no other bullshit

[superkulmedkniv25]

@iyequertu54 His music would sound a lot better auto - tuned though ;D

[geoffcabforcutie]

Free jazz is intrinsically elitist. If you can't handle it, you're probably not a musician.

[edcerc]

@geoffcabforcutie it was more of a strike against jazz elitism.

[BinaryTones]

@edcerc ~ What's so bad about having standards?

[edcerc]

@BinaryTones nothing whats your point

[BinaryTones]

@edcerc - jazz elitism = having high standards. 

[edcerc]

@BinaryTones theres a difference, having high standards is good but a lot of time musicians get up their own ass with their own personal agenda. Their stiff perceptions and ideas about music can block them from evolving. A lot of jazz players today are good musicians but their sound is lame. THey might have chops and know a lot about music but they are just nerds and make music that isnt raw and isnt innovative. A lot of people still hate on coltanes later period which to me says it all.

[BinaryTones]

@geoffcabforcutie ~ how is this 'free' jazz? It can't be improv! Sounds like they had some kind of a plan.

[youhavegeniusshins]

@geoffcabforcutie That's a pretty naive comment.

[tommytucker37]

this shit should of been droped on hiroshima

[sc0ner]

If you can't hear the cry of a lonely woman from the very first yawp of Ornette's sax at 1'47", you don't know what a woman is. If you listen to the passage from 2'34" to 2'54" and your heart isn't torn from your chest and ripped to pieces, you're not human. This isn't great "jazz." This is the motherfuckin blues. It's a bitch in heat on a hot Harlem night.

[StrangerToEarth]

@sc0ner Congragulations. You just made jazz sexy.

[BinaryTones]

@sc0ner ~ I don't hear a woman, I hear a sax that describes the reaction to a woman.

[SNCDeeDee]

@sc0ner stop whining start listening

[sc0ner]

@SNCDeeDee I just have one question: Why do you think I need to get emails with replies from people whose only goal is be insulting jackoffs? I'm hoping you can personally answer this now, having both sent one and receiving one. I mean... there IS no point. EXPRESS YOUR OWN POINT OF VIEW, if you have one. Why bother tearing my interpretation down. So, how about this: Stop FLAMING, start listening. Like that? If you want to reply reply, go ahead, but I'm not going to read it. Nyah-nyah! *pfft*

[sc0ner]

@SNCDeeDee Whatever, d-bag bitch.

[lalakekela]

@sc0ner brilliant comeback...

[yourockets3]

@sc0ner I'm a totally devoted Ornette's fan - he's my favourite musician - I have all his recordings, but I can't agree: people can have different sensibilities, let people free of not digging what you ( and in this case, me too) dig.

[jwb4291]

@sc0ner im a robot

[seacow1970]

@sc0ner amen to that 

[seacow1970]

@sc0ner Amen to that.

[surprisejunkie]

@sc0ner i hate you.

[NudeManOnPatrol]

Don Cherry is the sick. What fantastic tone and the way he plays dissonant to Coleman's sweetness is superb.

[tomfy1979]

How did he play this the same way twice?

[guitarhero343]

@tomfy1979 He never did, that's what jazz is

[HeartsFinalFlatline]

wow, isn't this just captivating... fantansic.

[trojanlol]

omg that's the stuff :p

[jaekn]

Ornette Coleman was frequently attacked for playing this way! I wish I could attack the people I don't like to listen to but times have apparently changed

[mlredr]

Ornette Coleman's "free jazz" sounds very deliberate and pretentious.

On the other hand, take the sheer grit and passion of Coltrane or the wild abandon of Sun Ra's compositions...they were real!

[ourgreylove]

@mlredr no point trying to be a music critic on youtube. First off, no one really cares for your opinion. Second, take into consideration that Ornette's style of composition was simply different. Spontaneous composition is different for every player. Whether or not it is a stream of consciousness, or a raging river is of little consequence. Just enjoy the music for what it is.

[Kranstafarian]

hhmmm...noup,not my type of music...it's quallity,that's for sure,just not my type

[angeloamericano]

so ornette wrote a song by the same name as the Horace Silver composition?. 2 much different jazz tunes! I see the art of this but it doesn't speak to me it's namesake tune.

[jaytonbye]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[N1run]

ough, sorry guys, this is horrible, the intro feels like a knife in my ear

[dagclarinet1]

@N1run should loneliness sound sweet?

[leaq]

it's not difficult or inconsistent or any of those things, it's just beautiful

[jamaskio]

@leaq why in the world would anyone ever think that jazz is difficult? just throwin seeds..

[53160]

@jamaskio difficult is relative. Also, this album changed my perspective drastically for an important period of my life.

[pupismile]

very unique sound, excellent.

[Beauxdeauxfinglok]

I love the "Woo!" someone shouts when Ornette really starts digging in.

[goshaix4]

is this ed blackwell?

[allforch17]

@goshaix4 billy higgins

[612franklin]

What I really like is that I'll never quite understand

[Fjord76]

this tune is definately haunting

Thanks for posting

Peace out

[dingdames33343]

@Lightbulbsocks I can only hope for sarcasm...

[ThePkreaper]

its different from anything ive heard lol it has no consistency that i can hear other than the instruments playing together it sure is different lol

[SchmittyRKD]

@ThePkreaper Au contraire, this tune is extremely accessible and even repetitive at points.

[schifferbrainz]

Imagine if nobody understood him. No nothing.

[Bootmahoy88]

chunky bisquits and gravy yummer sweet

[giulianosky]

i knew ornette and he shaked my hand!

[kaptenmax]

@giulianosky if you knew ornette shaking his hand shouldn't have been your fondest memory

[BuckshotLaFunke]

@kaptenmax Knowall.

[fedesax73]

@giulianosky Did you clean it later?

[5p4Zim]

my ears just shot whitew stuff... is that good?

[Giwilly18]

a revolution in my ears

[mainesthai]

This is my favorite jazz album.

[LGLG69]

So good!

[MattiusCN]

Ornette Coleman really is the king of free jazz. Brilliant.

[edcerc]

@MattiusCN did you ever hear albert ayler spiritual unity?

[dega723]

@MattiusCN The greatest of Colemane's work is the Naked Lunch soundtrack. Bad movie but great score.

[theRealbrando2393]

Free Jazz Master. Have listened to this track numerous times now.