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Successful among mainstream audiences, both have strong jazz influences, the latter featuring a cover of Charles Mingus ' jazz standard " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ".
Middleton contributed the homage to Led Zeppelin, " Led Boots ," and Beck chose to interpret the Charles Mingus ode to saxophonist Lester Young, " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ," from the classic jazz album Mingus Ah Um.
Side A (" Peace One " and " Peace Two ") offers a fusion blend of jazz and Indian classical forms while side B features melodic acoustic playing McLaughlin on such standards as " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ", by Charles Mingus whom McLaughlin considered an important influence.
Murphy made his name with the classic road movie Goodbye Pork Pie ( 1981 ), one of the first New Zealand films to attract large-scale audiences in its home country.
More recently, Murphy directed the New Zealand television comedy series Welcome to Paradise, worked on the remastered DVD release of Goodbye Pork Pie and was 2nd unit director on another Hollywood movie.
Goodbye Pork Pie is a 1981 New Zealand film directed by Geoff Murphy and written by Geoff Murphy and Ian Mune.
Though coming after Sleeping Dogs, the release of Goodbye Pork Pie is considered to be the coming-of-age of New Zealand cinema as it showed that New Zealanders can make successful films about New Zealand.
Director Geoff Murphy, was good friends with Tony Barry ( Smith ) and Bruno Lawrence many years prior to Goodbye Pork Pie.
Charles Mingus wrote an elegy for jazz saxophone great Lester Young called " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ", since Young was noted for his ever-present broad-brimmed porkpie.
Also that year he starred in the film Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Geoff Murphy's end of the world tale, The Quiet Earth ( 1985 ), Utu ( 1983 ), about the land wars of the 1860s, a cameo role in Murphy's Goodbye Pork Pie ( 1981 ), and Heart of the Stag ( 1984 ).
He moved to the film industry in the late 1970s, initially getting in the door by working for nothing, then worked as a boom operator for Television New Zealand, and on 1978 feature Skin Deep, the classic Goodbye Pork Pie, and Bad Blood.
He has also appeared in several New Zealand films, such as Utu, Carry Me Back, Goodbye Pork Pie, Old Scores and Beyond Reasonable Doubt.
Kingswoods featured prominently as police vehicles in the 1981 New Zealand-made action-comedy film Goodbye Pork Pie.
* Marshall Napier as Searle: Napier was another established film actor, who had appeared in various New Zealand films including Goodbye Pork Pie and Came a Hot Friday.
Charles Mingus dedicated an elegy, " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ", for Young only a few months after his death.
" Those were literally the lyrics Rahsaan Roland Kirk wrote and sang to the melody of the Charles Mingus elegy, " Goodbye Pork Pie Hat ".
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