Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
The drummer and bass play out a short intro which is than played twice as fast and is the feel the cymbal has for the rest of the tune. An alto sax and clarinet then enter the piece and accompany one another. They play the melody of the song and seem to switch off playing the octaves higher and lower to one another. The pace of the bass switches at times and you can here it doubling up. The "B" section has a new harmony played by the alto while the cornet goes up chromatically behind the sax. The melody returns and then the sax and cornet solo off then return to the melody throughout the song. This song is AABA format but in a somewhat different way in terms of the rhythm I presume.
Hard to comprehend the shock amongst audiences who heard this music for the first time!
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