Moanin’

I’ve had Moanin’ by Charles Mingus stuck in my head for a few days now. It feels like a piece of music that has been used in a lot of things, but the only ones that I can put my finger on are the Tetley Bitter ‘smoothly does it’ adverts, and Comedian, the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld and Orny Adams. What else has it been used in?

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