Charles Mingus
Dave Holland
The Manhattan Project
Wayne Shorter - Saxophone
Michel Petrucciani - Piano
Stanley Clarke - Bass
Lenny White - Drums
Gil Goldstein - Keyboards
Pete Levin - Keyboards
Joni Mitchell
Jaco Pastorius - bass
Michael Brecker -- Sax
Pat Methany - Guitar
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One of my absolute favorites of all times. I grew up listening to a Charles Mingus rendition with words sung. The same album had "there will never ever be another you." Do you know what album that is? I wanted to see the singer on the Mingus clip. But there isn't one. Other than ever Shangri-Las song, this is definitely one of the most romantic / tragic songs ever written.
Thanks, John
CJ -- I don't know of any other lyrics to Pork Pie except Joni's (that does nto mean there aren't). Is it possible you are thinking of 'Round Midnight?
Disregard the second part of that dumb statement. 'Round Midnight is, of course, a Thelonius Monk number.
It was mingus, I am fairly sure. ANd the lyrics were better than the Mitchell lyrics here. They went,
"He put all his soul into a tenor saxaphone.
He had a way of talkin' was a language all his own.
Life's story, love and glory, won't you listen as he plays it for you now.
Listen and listen and dig it. Won't you dig it?
Lester Young is playing what he's feeling. Dealing and dancing alone."
"Now someone might have told you Lester Young he's out of style OUT OF STYLE!! But now I'm here to tell you, tell you Prez is happening now!
Life's story, love and glory, won't you listen as he plays it for you now.
Listen and listen and dig it."
ON THE SAME LP was the song with the lyrics,
"There may be many more lips I will kiss. And I'll be standing here with someone new. There may be other songs to sing, another Fall another Spring, but there will never ever be another you."
Do you know the name of that song??
Thanks, John
Okay. The later song you have there is, indeed, There Will Never Be Another you.
The first song you have the lyrics dead on. It is by Rashaan Roland Kirk (Roland Theodore Kirk) and is indeed, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (that took a bit of googling).
I've never heard that before nor do I know which album it would be from.
I'll keep looking a bit later but at least it gives you something to start with. Hope it helps. And it show that you're not crazy, at least on this, although I may well be.
:)
With permission, I agree about the lyrics by "Rahasan" Roland Kirk being more 'autentic' - perhaps it has something to do he was also a tenor sax player, as 'Prez' (PorkyPie hat) Lester Young was... The name of the album in witch those tunes are is something like "The 500000 dollar man" - o'course, I may be wrong about the nº of zeroes...
AHA! Ask wait and ye shall receive.
A thousand thanks, Rui Azul. Mystery solved.
John, the album exists, it is by Roland Kirk, you ain't (as) crazy (as we think) and it is STILL available right here
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