Goodbye Pork Pie Hat NO BASS Backing Track Jazz Ballad – Apply bass lines over this masterpiece by the brilliant bassist Charles Mingus.

“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” is a jazz instrumental composed in 1959 by Charles Mingus and released on the albums “Mingus Ah Um” and “Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus”. This song is a tribute to saxophonist Lester Young who died shortly before the original recording of the song. This song is considered one of Mingus’ best-known compositions and quickly became an essential jazz standard.

This song has been covered by many jazz and fusion artists, including Stanley Clarke, Jaco Pastorius, Jeff Beck, John Mclaughlin, Marcus Miller, Gil Evans, Andy Summers, Spyro Gyra, Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and many others.

This jazz standard can be found in the “Real Book vol.1” on page 175 and in “Charles Mingus – More Than a Fake Book – Hal Leonard” on page 52, and it is the latter that we used as a basis for producing this playback.

This backing track is in the key of F minor and is divided into 3 parts. In the first part, we have the harmony where we will play the melody of the song, in the second part, the chords on which the instrumentalist will apply his solos, and in the third part, the melody is played again, ending the song.

This accompaniment is formed by drums and piano. The tempo is 60bpm.

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