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Billy Gardner follows Charlie Rouse with one and a half choruses on piano, completing the solo section. 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. The solo appears on the 1960 album Yeah!, a significant entry in the artist's discography. You Don't Know What Love Is is a melancholic ballad composed by Gene de Paul with lyrics by Don Raye in 1941. His approach to the ballad is patient and melodically focused, each phrase carefully shaped and placed with rhythmic subtlety.
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