Radka Toneff Lonely Woman (live, 1982)

Composed by Ornette Coleman. Live on Scottish TV, 1982. With Jon Balke (piano), Arild Andersen (bass) and Alex Riel (drums). Another live version of this song is released on Live in Hamburg (Odin Records, Norway, 1993), recorded in 1981. Radka Toneff was born in 1952 in Oslo, Norway, of Bulgarian father (folk singer) and Norwegian mother. She is Norway s greatest jazz singer to this day, and her album Fairytales (1982) is Norway s best selling jazz record. She died in 1982. Lyrics: