01st Jun 2002
Goodbye Pork Pie Goodbye Q.
Goodbye Pork Pie
Goodbye Q. Thanks for everything. Have a great trip, and drop me a line.
FYI, here are some versions of that song that was playing at Starbucks (incredibly enough), “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.” It’s a haunting melody by composer and bassist Charles Mingus in tribute to “The Prez,” saxaphone great Lester Young. A classic tune, it’s been recorded many times (a high-speed connection would help for these):
- Charles Mingus’s original version, from his amazing album “Mingus Ah Um”.
- Kevin Mahogany’s version with lyrics.
- Joni Mitchell’s earlier version with a different set of lyrics, featuring an amazing back-up band for a hippie chick: Jaco Pastorius (b), Wayne Shorter (sax), Herbie Hancock (p) and Peter Erskine (dr) (i.e., basically Weather Report plus Hancock, who, together with Shorter, previously backed up Miles Davis), from her album “Mingus.”
- Jeff Beck’s jazz fusion version
- Stanley Clarke’s jazz fusion version
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I would like the Mingus lyrics to Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Here are the lyrics Joni Mitchel sings. Kevin Mahogany apparently sings a different set of lyrics by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, which I can’t find.
Margie writes back with this link for the other set of lyrics for this.
Check the version of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat done by John McLaughlin. It is a two-guitar instrumental arrangement and is the most haunting beautiful version I have heard. It is on an early 1970’s album called “My Goal’s Beyond”.
Say, don’t forget the McLaughlin inspired Jeff Beck version.
Also don’t forget Stanley Clarke’s or Karl Denson’s.
The Coryells (Larry and his sons) do a pretty nice version too.
GREAT SONG, I’ll never get tired of hearing different versions of it!