Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.
A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Dannie Richmond, and Herbie Hancock.
Mingus' compositions continue to be played by contemporary musicians ranging from the repertory bands Mingus Big Band, Mingus Dynasty, and Mingus Orchestra, to the high school students who play the charts and compete in the Charles Mingus High School Competition.
In 1993, the Library of Congress acquired Mingus's collected papers—including scores, sound recordings, correspondence and photos—in what they described as "the most important acquisition of a manuscript collection relating to jazz in the Library's history".
Willie Fennell
William John Fennell( 20 January 1920 – 9 September 1992) was an Australian radio, television( serials and mini-series), stage and film actor, comedian, producer and writer who appeared in many Australian television series in a lengthy career spanning over 50 years, recognised by his slightly nasal, raspy voice, moustache and pork pie hat
Caspar Babypants
Caspar Babypants is the stage name of children's music artist Chris Ballew, who is also widely known as the singer of The Presidents of the United States of America.
Bernie Bonvoisin
Bernard Bonvoisin, known as Bernie Bonvoisin( born 9 July 1956 in Nanterre, Hauts- de- Seine), is a French hard rock singer and film director.
He is best known for having been the singer of Trust.
He was one of the best friends of Bon Scott the singer of AC/ DC and together they recorded the song" Ride On" which was one of the last songs by Bon Scott.
Geoff Murphy
Geoffrey Peter Murphy( 12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the last half of the 1970s.
His second feature" Goodbye Pork Pie"( 1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its own soil.
Murphy directed several Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second- unit director on" The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy.
Murphy was also at different times a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player.
He was married to Merata Mita, also a film director, actor, writer.
Chris Stapp
Chris Stapp is a New Zealand actor/ director/ musician best known for his role of stuntman Randy Cambell in" Back Of The Y Masterpiece Television".
He and" Back of the Y" co-star Matt Heath appear in season 6 of" Eating Media Lunch".
In 2005 the pair also hosted a weekly radio show" Thursday Drive" on bFM.
He appeared, again as Randy Cambell, in the first season of the British show" Balls of Steel", and later in the film" The Devil Dared Me To" where Cambell is the central character.
Recently told the" New Zealand Listenerour aim is to make the greatest New Zealand film since Goodbye Pork Pie."
Nigel Hutchinson
Robert William Nigel Hutchinson( 13 July 1941 – 23 March 2017) was an English- born New Zealand film producer and commercial director best known for co-producing the 1981 film," Goodbye Pork Pie", with Geoff Murphy.
Hutchinson also made a small cameo in the classic New Zealand film as a dairy farmer.
He produced other films and television commercials, most recently" Home by Christmas" in 2010.
Hutchinson, the son of a Royal Air Force pilot, was born in England on 13 July 1941.
He began his film career as a press officer for the Walt Disney Company's London office.
An original drummer for the British band The Bo Street Runners, Hutchinson left the band to work for Disney full- time.
His position in the band was filled by drummer Mick Fleetwood, who later formed Fleetwood Mac.
Hutchinson next joined a production company owned by actor David Hemmings.
While working with Hemmings, Hutchinson became friends with New Zealand cinematographer, Graeme Cowley.
Huctinson and Cowley soon partnered in 1974 to form two film companies based in Wellington, New Zealand – Film Facilities, a film rental company, and their production company, Motion Pictures Limited.
The duo hoped to profit from New Zealand's expanding film and television industries during the 1970s.
Hutchinson originally met Geoff Murphy, who had already penned an early, handwritten screenplay for the film that would become" Goodbye Pork Pie" through his new production companies.
Hutchinson and Cowley soon joined the production as co-producers.
Together, Hucthinson, Murphy and Cowlet kept the production on a shoe- string budget of just NZ$ 450,000.
Released in 1981," Goodbye Pork Pie" became the first New Zealand- made film to recoup its original budget solely from domestic NZ box office sales.
It also became the first New Zealand film to screen at the Cannes Film Festival.
Cowley later focused on their Film Facilities rental division, while Nigel Hutchinson directed and produced television commercials.
Hutchinson won several international awarded for his commercials, including a Gold Clio Award, a Gold Lion from the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and a Mobies award.
His commercial portfolio featured Kiwi and international celebrities including Richard Briers, Richard Hadlee, Felicity Kendal, and Dennis Waterman.
Nigel Hutchinson died at his home in Picton, on 23 March 2017, at the age of 75.
He was survived by his wife of 42 years, Sue, and two children.
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is a jazz standard composed by Charles Mingus, originally recorded by his sextet in 1959 as listed below, and released on his album "
Mingus
Ah Um".
Composed in E-flat minor, Mingus wrote it as an elegy for saxophonist Lester Young, who had died two months prior to the recording session, and was known to wear a pork pie hat.
One of Mingus's best-known compositions, it has been recorded by many jazz and jazz fusion artists.
Joni Mitchell added lyrics to the song for her 1979 album "Mingus", recorded in collaboration with Mingus during the months before his death.
Rahsaan Roland Kirk also composed lyrics to the song, included on his 1976 album "The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man".
O Valencia!
" O Valencia!" is the fifth single by the indie rock band
The Decemberists, and the first released from their fourth studio album," The Crane Wife".
The music was written by The Decemberists and the lyrics by Colin Meloy.
It tells a story of two star- crossed lovers.
The singer falls in love with a person who belongs to an opposing gang.
At the end of the song, the singer's lover jumps in to defend the singer, who is confronting his lover's brother( the singer's" sworn enemy") and is killed by the bullet intended for the singer.
Billy Milano
Billy Milano is a Bronx- born heavy metal musician now based in Austin, Texas.
He is the singer and- occasionally- guitarist and bassist of crossover thrash band M.O.D., and he was also the singer of its predecessor, Stormtroopers of Death.
He was also the singer of United Forces, which also featured his Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Dan Lilker.

Question: What nationality is the performer of song Goodbye Pork Pie Hat?
Answer: American