theme for lester young (goodbye pork pie hat)

Charles Mingus, the “angry man of jazz,” bassist and legendary composer.  Lester Young, a fellow jazz artist and Mingus’ friend, was known for wearing a pork pie hat — think Heisenberg’s hat in Breaking Bad.  This is his elegy.

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