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Ornette Coleman’s “Lonely Woman” is the most hauntingly beautiful song in jazz. Photo by -/AFP/Getty Images Read more of Slate’s remembrances of Ornette Coleman. On May 22, 1959, the Ornette Coleman Quartet stepped into Radio Recorders studio in West Hollywood—where Elvis Presley and Louis Armstrong had recorded some of their hits—and, all in one day, laid down six Ornette originals. They all appeared on an album called The Shape of Jazz to Come, an extraordinary mix of gentle blues, up-tempo frenzy, and a five-minute ballad called “Lonely Woman” that was unlike anything ever heard. Baffling at the time, though even then strangely mesmerizing, it quickly emerged—and still remains—the most hauntingly beautiful song in jazz. The song (which I already wrote about, in some detail, in my book 1959: The Year Everything Changed) begins with Charlie Haden playing a slow bass dirge and Billy Higgins swirling a fast drum riff, an unusual pairing from the get-go. After reciting the theme a couple times, Coleman takes his solo.