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Charlie Rouse opens with two choruses on tenor sax, the first of two solos, followed by Billy Gardner on piano. At a ballad tempo of 109 BPM over the 32-bar AABA in D, the performance unfolds with spacious lyricism and emotional depth. Billy Gardner follows with one and a half piano choruses that complement Rouse's understated approach, his playing supportive and harmonically attentive. Recorded for the album Yeah! in 1960, the performance captures Charlie Rouse at 35 to 36 years old. Charlie Rouse opens his 1960 album Yeah! with a warmly expressive reading of Gene de Paul's ballad "You Don't Know What Love Is," a tune that had become a touchstone for jazz musicians since its 1941 debut.
Charlie Rouse was 35 to 36 years old at the time.
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