Montreux 1975 ---"Blues and rock fans like me love legendary jazz bassist Charles Mingus because he’s so bluesy and so damn soulful. The original version of his elegiac 1959 tribute to/requiem for Lester Young, “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat,” sounds like a brass band on its way to the graveyard. The slow drag, about as close as jazz comes to a dirge, is one of the saddest and most cathartic pieces of music ever written, bar none. A great piece to put on when you’re feeling seriously down and want to wallow in it for a while, it defines and transcends the blues or jazz in many ways. When friends ask me to play them my favorite piece of jazz, this is the recording I invariably reach for." ~Hank Bordowitz