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Charles Mingus asked Joni Mitchell to put lyrics to some of his songs before he died of Lou Gehrig’s disease. “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is about Lester Young (Jaco Pastorius, Don Alias, Pat Metheny, Joni Mitchell, Lyle Mays, Michael Brecker.) Links in comments to lyrics & article about writing them.
Joni Mitchell - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - YouTube

Shadows and Light DVDJoni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Don Alias

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In response to Jim Calkins.
Behind the lyrics:
“They were dancing under one of those cloth awnings that goes out to the curb of a bar…The name of the bar is the Pork Pie Hat. The music they were dancing to was jazz coming off of the jukebox inside. There were big blown-up pictures of Lester Young all around the place.”
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In response to Jim Calkins.
Lyrics:
When Charlie speaks of Lester

You know someone great has gone

The sweetest swinging music man

Had a Porkie Pig hat on

When the bandstands had a thousand ways

Of refusing a black man admission
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Black musician

In those days they put him in an

Underdog position

Cellars an
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