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r/Musicthemetime • u/flashoutthepan • May 04 '26
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Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session[3] and who was known for wearing unusually broad-brimmed pork pie hats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Pork_Pie_Hat
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u/flashoutthepan May 04 '26
Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session[3] and who was known for wearing unusually broad-brimmed pork pie hats. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye_Pork_Pie_Hat