
"When Charlie speaks of Lester, you know someone great has gone... The sweetest swingin´ music man, had a Porkie Pig hat on..." Here´s three versions of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat , the immortal ´59 tribute to recently deceased tenor great Lester ´Pres´ Young by ´angry man of jazz´ Charles Mingus. The bassist´s original, which became a jazz standard over the years, simply flows and flows. In ´68 British folk experimentalists Pentangle - featuring the dual guitar wizardry of Bert Jansch and John Renbourn - tackled [...]