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.
can’t leave the night
When I first found this band it felt like almost. Not quite. It was jazz at heart, and it rocked, and the drums were on point, but something was missing, some kind of hook. After trawling through three albums, I finally found it. Them spectral, ethereal keys. Them drums. Mm.
handkerchief tied to stick 