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Arnold Rypens
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Artist: Charles Mingus
Author: Charles Mingus
Label: Columbia
Year: 1959
Song about Lester Young, Billie Holiday's saxophone player who died earlier that year and who always donned a flat-top hat like Gene Hackman's in The French Connection.
Covers:
Bert Jansch & John Renbourn [the first non-jazz version]
Joni Mitchell [following Charles Mingus' death]
June Tabor [as Pork Pie Hat]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)