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Charles Mingus wrote 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' as an elegy for the pioneering jazz saxophonist Lester Young, who died in March 1959, two months prior to the recording sessions for what would become Mingus Ah Um. A darkly elegant ballad with a lone dissonant note full of pathos...

From the buoyant gospel of 'Better Git It In Your Soul' and the mournful grace of 'Goodbye Pork Pie Hat' to the caustic protest song 'Fables of Faubus', on Mingus Ah Um the double bassist and redoubtable bandleader Charles Mingus produced one of his most diverse and accessible albums. Mingus Ah Um was recorded over two sessions on 5 and...