Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals Pat Metheny - lead guitar Jaco Pastorius - fretless bass (Fender Jazz) Don Alias - drums, percussion Lyle Mays - electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1) Michael Brecker - saxophones I believe that's the definition of a supergroup.
Charles asked Joni to do these lyrics; he knew true artistry when he heard it. I wish he could have lived long enough to hear this performance! RIP, Charles!
That's a song, Charles Mingus has written for Lester Young, for one of the greatest saxophone players the world has known. The 27.08 was the 100 birthday anniversary of this great jazz-musician. Joni Mitchell mastered this song, it's really difficult. I admire her for her talent!
I am quite sure that Joni wrote the words,, and that Charles Mingus asked her to write words to his music before he died which occurred before the album was released!!
@@billycm8370you want to really have your mind blown, see this performance of this song, by Austin Peralta…the night he died. With added lyrics th-cam.com/video/y3PCzMLSGes/w-d-xo.htmlsi=CRXWFDc4S6r_w90V
Joni’s lyrics here display transcendent genius at the highest level, especially setting lyrics to that wonderful saxophone solo and incorporating it in the song here. Whenever I think of Joni, and this band, I just think of that profoundly beautiful phrase ‘love is never easy’…absolute perfection. It does not get any better.
1:54 -- those fantastic bass harmonics. But listen to how Jaco is never just doing a groove. He's reflecting all the articulations around him, including the singer's jagged line, getting 'inside' the music like no other bass guitarist before and since.
My goodness! WOW! I was too preoccupied with other things musical earlier in life to explore the depth of what Joni was doing. I can't believe what a fool I was! I mean, I always liked the things I heard her do and suspected based on her unusual guitar tuning harmonies and free vocal styling that she had a jazz heart, but I didn't even suspect something like this! The good news is that I've got a lot of wood shedding to do on her vast body of work! Thanks for the post and blessings everyone!
I was a one-year old when this video came out. 14 years later I find myself enjoying jazz, this music makes my 15 year old mind feel as if it’s traversed ages. Truly art
Don't ever stop listening to jazz. This is where the talent and the masterpieces are. If you like this, check out as much Charles Mingus as you can find. Duke Ellington is my favorite. And John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, George Benson, Michel Petrucciani, Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie... the list goes on and on. You get to discover it all for the first time. It's like Christmas that lasts for years and years. Enjoy it. PS get yourself one decent pair of speakers and buy used CDs for a few bucks each. They sound a lot better than youtube. Like three times as good.
I was thinking...she may be the most respected female musician by other musicians ever...to be able to have the utmost respect from musicians as diverse as Metheny,Pastorius,plus other jazz giants,then the whole folk music creme a la creme, and then guys like Prince...there is definitely something very intelectually artistic about this woman,something that makes her collegues,regardless of musical style,admire her imensely.
I heard her sing this twice at the Bread and Roses concerts. Once with a similar band and once with Hancock. Both times were just exceptional. She really was in complete blossom in this period and seemed to be enjoying her work and fame. A delight to see. She just transfixed an audience. Great artist.
Une pure merveille! Je connais le disque depuis 20 ans, et decouvrir la vidéo est un moment extatique! Une si sublime chanteuse, interprétant si merveilleusement une si sublime chanson, soutenue par un groupe "impossible"... Heaven, I'm in Heaven...
Pure magic, musical perfection and such a shame so many of these Gifted artists have passed to join Mingus in the sounds of history. Thanks for posting! Share this vid and enlighten the musicians of this era...
The talent on that stage...there is not even a word for level of taste and musicianship! Joni just floors me...her pitch is so flawless and her performance is so felt! Mike Brecker is just the finest soloist I have ever heard. I sure miss him. I am so glad this concert was posted. I don't think it gets any finer. What a gift This is :)
Holy shit, my favorite Mingus tune, sang by my favorite singer/songwriter, backed by the most ridiculous line up ever! Jaco knew what the hell he was doing on that tremolo section! WOW I am blown away!
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing this tour in Illinois. What a phenomenal band, what a great way to enjoy Joni. Jaco was just STUPID good that night.
Jazzlegend Charles Mingus wrote this beautiful tune... And also sweet Joni Mitchell gives her unique approach to Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. And what a wonderful backinggroup she's got on this post.
Music cannot be a contest. Nobody is better or worse. It's art, not science. Everyone is entitled to like or dislike. For those who like this kind of jazz, there will be little doubt that this song in this setting is as beautiful as it is unique. Wonderful perfomance of a bunch highly skilled musicians!
Yes, Jaco's amazing. I read an interview where he said he was a big Frank Sinatra fan and that when he played bass he was "really just singing". That explains some of it for me. But it doesn't explain the incredible creativity behinds his harmonic chord at 2:26 nor the fast pedalling afterwards that defines the character of the verse. But isn't just the Jaco show because Joni and he have a sensitive combination going on, and Michael Brecker's solo is outstanding.
Love the way Joni subtly changes the tempo of the song as she goes along. It speeds up a little then settles back into the slow groove. Her sense of time is impeccable.
This is my favorite song sung by Joni. It is also the first song I ever read on sheet music, for piano, when I began to study music, a bit, beginning at age 26 in1980. I love you Joni. I must say, I truly admire Mingus, too.
Just to clarify for some. Charlie Mingus wrote the music as a instrumental memorial for Lester Young. These words were written by Joni Mitchell. This song shows up on the album "Mingus".
When Charlie speaks of Lester You know someone great has gone The sweetest swinging music man Had a Porkie Pig hat on A bright star In a dark age When the bandstands had a thousand ways Of refusing a black man admission Black musician In those days they put him in an Underdog position They put him in Cellars and chitlins' When Lester took him a wife Arm and arm went black and white And some saw red And drove them from their hotel bed Love is never easy It's short of the hope we have for happiness Bright and sweet Love is never easy street Now we are black and white Embracing out in the lunatic New York night It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town Or be hung in a tree That's unlikely Tonight these crowds Are happy and loud Children are up dancing in the streets In the sticky middle of the night Summer serenade Of taxi horns and fun arcades Where right or wrong Under neon Every feeling goes on! For you and me The sidewalk is a history book It's a circus Dangerous clowns Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions They have been handed Day by day Generations on down We came up from the subway On the music midnight makes To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone In taxi horns and brakes Now Charlie's down in Mexico With the healers So the sidewalk leads us with music To two little dancers They'e dancing outside this crowded black bar Don and me we look up and There's a sign up on the awning It says "Pork Pie Hat Bar" And there were two brand new little musicians dancing barefoot Tonight ~ Joni Mitchell lyrics; Charles Mingus music
...jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music!
Miss Joni Mitchell, this song it is so meaningful l for us, Latin and black see that you have a heart for us, Miss,Joni the discrimination still there but i know one day will disappears. Thanks ,Joni for your respect., it is a beautiful song!
I don't even think anything i say matters...this video says it all. that voice...she had trained it so much in just the few years since, "Court and Spark," and "Hejira."
![Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Live At Montreux (1975) [9-12]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/xPWvA1EiezI/mqdefault.jpg)
joni deserves way more cred then she gets for her jazz work.
An incredible credit was she inspired Led's Going to California. Jimmy Page cryed the first time he saw her singing
Its my favorite of all her stuff. Man just so so good.
more credit than she gets*
@@ijemand5672 love the profile pic man
@@nicholasghoulson9949 you have anime as your pfp. I'm not gonna listen to you
Joni Mitchell - electric guitar, vocals
Pat Metheny - lead guitar
Jaco Pastorius - fretless bass (Fender Jazz)
Don Alias - drums, percussion
Lyle Mays - electric piano (Rhodes), synthesizer (Oberheim FVS-1)
Michael Brecker - saxophones
I believe that's the definition of a supergroup.
"Purt near, if not PLUMB !" as they say in The Ozarks ! lol
The personnel list on the "Mingus" album version of the song is even more impressive.
Greatest line up ever, saw them live at Fairmont Park 1983
Can't go wrong with that set!
In the Mingus album we had Jaco and Alias, plus Wayne Shorter & Herbie Hancock.
Charles asked Joni to do these lyrics; he knew true artistry when he heard it. I wish he could have lived long enough to hear this performance! RIP, Charles!
Holy mother of God... it is amazing that more people haven't viewed this. Incredible band. Joni is just amazing. Wow. I have to go lie down.
Dennis Hasting
pound for pound, this has to be one of the greatest bands ever assembled.
I'm not sure I've ever heard a better bass tone than what Jaco has on this song. Just this deep, thick growl. Wow.
Yeah, that growl he got was signature sound. Simply amazing.
It's his signature tone. He only had one, but it was genius.
3:28 love Joni walking away from the mic like a boss, just to come back to deliver that fucking stellar note. the swagger of it all...
This has got to be one of the most expressive and intelligent performances I have ever heard.
That's a song, Charles Mingus has written for Lester Young, for one of the greatest saxophone players the world has known. The 27.08 was the 100 birthday anniversary of this great jazz-musician. Joni Mitchell mastered this song, it's really difficult. I admire her for her talent!
Well said
I am quite sure that Joni wrote the words,, and that Charles Mingus asked her to write words to his music before he died which occurred before the album was released!!
@@billycm8370you want to really have your mind blown, see this performance of this song, by Austin Peralta…the night he died. With added lyrics
th-cam.com/video/y3PCzMLSGes/w-d-xo.htmlsi=CRXWFDc4S6r_w90V
My God this is Jazz! Feel like I've walked into a dream.
Joni’s lyrics here display transcendent genius at the highest level, especially setting lyrics to that wonderful saxophone solo and incorporating it in the song here. Whenever I think of Joni, and this band, I just think of that profoundly beautiful phrase ‘love is never easy’…absolute perfection. It does not get any better.
1:54 -- those fantastic bass harmonics. But listen to how Jaco is never just doing a groove. He's reflecting all the articulations around him, including the singer's jagged line, getting 'inside' the music like no other bass guitarist before and since.
Incredible beautiful!!
Jaco was such an Unique player.
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He's doing a groove, but it's not just repetition.
Tonight, these crowds are happy and loud, children are dancing in the street, love that part.. beautiful song
10 years old comment, that part gives me life
I miss Michael Brecker so much it hurts.
My goodness! WOW! I was too preoccupied with other things musical earlier in life to explore the depth of what Joni was doing. I can't believe what a fool I was! I mean, I always liked the things I heard her do and suspected based on her unusual guitar tuning harmonies and free vocal styling that she had a jazz heart, but I didn't even suspect something like this! The good news is that I've got a lot of wood shedding to do on her vast body of work! Thanks for the post and blessings everyone!
Totally amazing Joni adding vocals to Jazz Mingus Music...what a cast!
That was unbelievable but best jazz singer? Teena Marie had jazz elements in her music....Ella Fitzgerald....Sarah Vaughn. etc etc
I was a one-year old when this video came out. 14 years later I find myself enjoying jazz, this music makes my 15 year old mind feel as if it’s traversed ages. Truly art
cool, man
Don't ever stop listening to jazz. This is where the talent and the masterpieces are. If you like this, check out as much Charles Mingus as you can find. Duke Ellington is my favorite. And John Coltrane, Dave Brubeck, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, George Benson, Michel Petrucciani, Art Tatum, Dizzy Gillespie... the list goes on and on. You get to discover it all for the first time. It's like Christmas that lasts for years and years. Enjoy it. PS get yourself one decent pair of speakers and buy used CDs for a few bucks each. They sound a lot better than youtube. Like three times as good.
Ay, a fellow 15 year old! I thought I was the only one in my generation who understood music...
I was thinking...she may be the most respected female musician by other musicians ever...to be able to have the utmost respect from musicians as diverse as Metheny,Pastorius,plus other jazz giants,then the whole folk music creme a la creme, and then guys like Prince...there is definitely something very intelectually artistic about this woman,something that makes her collegues,regardless of musical style,admire her imensely.
She makes absolutely no mistakes with any of her singing!!!! The Queen of jazz voice indeed!
The best female Jazz singer of all time? Really?
@@Frapzoid she is but Ella Sarah etc etc even teens Marie....plus joni is also pop and folk music really.
I heard her sing this twice at the Bread and Roses concerts. Once with a similar band and once with Hancock. Both times were just exceptional. She really was in complete blossom in this period and seemed to be enjoying her work and fame. A delight to see. She just transfixed an audience. Great artist.
Une pure merveille! Je connais le disque depuis 20 ans, et decouvrir la vidéo est un moment extatique! Une si sublime chanteuse, interprétant si merveilleusement une si sublime chanson, soutenue par un groupe "impossible"... Heaven, I'm in Heaven...
Pure magic, musical perfection and such a shame so many of these Gifted artists have passed to join Mingus in the sounds of history. Thanks for posting! Share this vid and enlighten the musicians of this era...
I can't think of a more talented group of musicians to appear together. Outstanding and never to be seen again☹
The talent on that stage...there is not even a word for level of taste and musicianship! Joni just floors me...her pitch is so flawless and her performance is so felt! Mike Brecker is just the finest soloist I have ever heard. I sure miss him. I am so glad this concert was posted. I don't think it gets any finer. What a gift
This is :)
Jaco is here fully connected to the ultimum continuum. Way over and beyond the highest level of Art.
Joni is phenomenal on this number!!
ridiculously beautiful. Thank you Joni and band.
I will NEVER get tired of Joni! What a great layout, and Brecker was amazing. What a great number!
Holy shit, my favorite Mingus tune, sang by my favorite singer/songwriter, backed by the most ridiculous line up ever! Jaco knew what the hell he was doing on that tremolo section! WOW I am blown away!
I’m blown away. A masterpiece
Phrasing,phrasing,phrasing!...Joni and Jaco;what a dance!!!
A true masterful moment in music history captured in all its glory blazing and heartfelt now cyrstlized in our hearts forevermore
I had the extreme pleasure of seeing this tour in Illinois. What a phenomenal band, what a great way to enjoy Joni. Jaco was just STUPID good that night.
That's about as good as it gets for me. Joni and the band's ideas, execution and musical chemistry are so beautiful.
Doesn't get any better than this.
Love how some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century were in Joni Mitchell's band! and vice versa :).
Pat Metheny, Don Alias, Michael Brecker, Lyle Mays and the incomparable Jaco. Can't beat it.
Jazzlegend Charles Mingus wrote this beautiful tune... And also sweet Joni Mitchell gives her unique approach to Goodbye Pork Pie Hat. And what a wonderful backinggroup she's got on this post.
Heaven! These musicians have just come from Heaven!
Music cannot be a contest. Nobody is better or worse. It's art, not science. Everyone is entitled to like or dislike. For those who like this kind of jazz, there will be little doubt that this song in this setting is as beautiful as it is unique. Wonderful perfomance of a bunch highly skilled musicians!
I could listen to this forever. Free man in Paris in between. These people were so lucky
5:05 ( little dancers) Jacos slide into that note- just crazy good
This was some of the tastiest Joni ever. We adore you Joni. Brilliant, innovative and kept the boys on their toes.
This got to be the most perfect bass tone of all time
Yes, Jaco's amazing.
I read an interview where he said he was a big Frank Sinatra fan and that when he played bass he was "really just singing". That explains some of it for me.
But it doesn't explain the incredible creativity behinds his harmonic chord at 2:26 nor the fast pedalling afterwards that defines the character of the verse.
But isn't just the Jaco show because Joni and he have a sensitive combination going on, and Michael Brecker's solo is outstanding.
I was all in as soon as I saw Jaco Pastorious on bass. Her voice is something else. Fantasy
When I think I wanted to sing this song 40 years ago..... Still know the lyrics though! Missing Jaco Pastorius . Thanks She is still with us
Oh Joni, wonderful as always.
THIS IS A FREAKIN MASTERPIECE!!!!!!
Yes, a masterpiece is an actual thing, not just an empty word... most music ain't one, but this just is.
This is so much better than the recording. Thanks for the post. Really liked it.
Love the way Joni subtly changes the tempo of the song as she goes along. It speeds up a little then settles back into the slow groove. Her sense of time is impeccable.
What a great combo group and beautiful song, thank you Mingus! Rip.
the LADY was such a gift to us fans and her band was pretty great, as well. Thanks, Joni and boys ! LOL
This is my favorite song sung by Joni. It is also the first song I ever read on sheet music, for piano, when I began to study music, a bit, beginning at age 26 in1980. I love you Joni. I must say, I truly admire Mingus, too.
Jaco’s bass makes the magic complete! Incredible beautiful and tastfull playing by the maestro.
one of the great mingus compositions. and one of the great interpretations.
best song 素敵な歌声ありがとうございました
There is no way I am ever going to hear all this GOLD on YT, but I am trying.
Jaco makes hes astoning, unique sound of eternity on this track... So damn beautiful!
Ms. Mitchell is a friggin' Jazz Diva!! I had no idea. Just marvelous.
Such art by all. Joni is a treasure and the band is as well.
Just to clarify for some. Charlie Mingus wrote the music as a instrumental memorial for Lester Young. These words were written by Joni Mitchell. This song shows up on the album "Mingus".
Great job by Joni, hilarious glazed facial expressions in the audience; obviously not what they were expecting! You've seen both sides now.
Had to really listen to the lyrics to fully grasp this version of this song. Pressed replay and said WOW this is amazing!
RIP Lester Young and Charles Mingus. This is great!
When Charlie speaks of Lester
You know someone great has gone
The sweetest swinging music man
Had a Porkie Pig hat on
A bright star
In a dark age
When the bandstands had a thousand ways
Of refusing a black man admission
Black musician
In those days they put him in an
Underdog position
They put him in
Cellars and chitlins'
When Lester took him a wife
Arm and arm went black and white
And some saw red
And drove them from their hotel bed
Love is never easy
It's short of the hope we have for happiness
Bright and sweet
Love is never easy street
Now we are black and white
Embracing out in the lunatic New York night
It's very unlikely we'll be driven out of town
Or be hung in a tree
That's unlikely
Tonight these crowds
Are happy and loud
Children are up dancing in the streets
In the sticky middle of the night
Summer serenade
Of taxi horns and fun arcades
Where right or wrong
Under neon
Every feeling goes on!
For you and me
The sidewalk is a history book
It's a circus
Dangerous clowns
Balancing dreadful and wonderful perceptions
They have been handed
Day by day
Generations on down
We came up from the subway
On the music midnight makes
To Charlie's bass and Lester's saxophone
In taxi horns and brakes
Now Charlie's down in Mexico
With the healers
So the sidewalk leads us with music
To two little dancers
They'e dancing outside this crowded black bar
Don and me we look up and
There's a sign up on the awning
It says "Pork Pie Hat Bar"
And there were two brand new little musicians dancing barefoot
Tonight
~ Joni Mitchell lyrics; Charles Mingus music
Joni never stop. Thank you for your endless gift.
Jaco,s old jazz and Joni vocals , what a great version. What a great band.
I grew up listen to this album.. pure brilliance
Poor Jaco ,,Poor Poor, Jaco ,,,Poor Joni Poor Poor Joni Thank You Pat Metheny God Bless You guys what a tune.god bless
Great piece to listen to on the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus 4/22/2022. Stellar performance by Joni Mitchell. Bravo!
Incredible rendition. I love this version better than the studio one. Every musician at their best !
Agree! Also Coyote from this concert is better tha studio version. Jaco especially
You mean METHENY doen't play a note !!!!!
50 something yrs ago, Ms J. MITCHELL introduced me to the hidden NIRVANA. I 💙💙💙💙 you mama.
Jaco....truly one of a kind
superunknown373 Your videos are always the Best.
RIP
Jaco Pastorius, Michael Brecker, Don Alias ,
Michael we miss you the most...
Joni sings amazingly in this song...
Hermosa Joni Hermosa Jaco💞
what a treat to see jaco and pat. nice surprise! Thanks for posting
...jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music! .....jaco's unique feeling of music!
Absolutely incredible concert. Stunning singing by Joni Mitchell. Even more stunning in view of the lack of technical back-up (earbuds).
Merci pour cette petite merveille....
Some nights I can listen to version after version of this song. And of course this one makes the cut.
Wonderful melody! Gorgeous lyrics! Outstanding performance!
This whole concert is exceptional. The young audience are enthralled. The look on that woman at 4:36 ...
Music is the best! Love this. Thank you.
Remember lester young. Hero. Thanks Joni and Charles..
Miss Joni Mitchell, this song it is so meaningful l
for us, Latin and black see that you have a heart
for us, Miss,Joni the discrimination still there but i know one day will disappears.
Thanks ,Joni for your respect., it is a beautiful song!
I don't even think anything i say matters...this video says it all. that voice...she had trained it so much in just the few years since, "Court and Spark," and "Hejira."
a great take on a great tune
Just incredible!
Wha a goddess, and such an unbelievably talented set of people to back her up.
Absolutely wonderful 😊
Goosebumps. RIP Mingus. RIP Young.
My name is Marty. I am a big fan of Joni Mitchell, Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius and Charles Mingus.
Fabulous 🕊️❤️
"Love is never Easy Street."
This is a side of Joni I hadn't seen. Not surprised though. Love it.
This is one of a kind stuff; this is greatness...
This...IS MUSIC!!!!
bellissimo brano !!!! grandi artisti!!!