Jazz for aficionados

Nice post, @stuartk . Wonderful Pharoah. Thanks for reminding me of this great record. “Rapturous” is a great way of describing his playing on it. Just beautiful. A lot of “Coltranisms” in his playing, but a vey different musical aura. Having always thought of Coltrane’s version of “You Don’t Know……” as the definitive version, Pharoah’s makes Trane’s sound anything but rapturous. Melancholy is the word that comes to mind when listening to Trane’s.

https://youtu.be/JrwSuy6ZBjI?si=c4xIxqnX-WB4pN-i

Russell Malone

@frogman 

Melancholy is the word that comes to mind when listening to Trane’s.

...which would seem to be more consistent with the lyrics: 

You don't know what love is
Until you've learned the meaning of the blues
Until you've loved a love you had to loose
You don't know what love is

You don't know how lips hurt
Until you've kissed and had to pay the cost
Until you've flipped you're heart and you have lost
You don't know what love is

Do you know how a lost heart fears
The thought of reminiscing
And how lips have taste of tears
Loose the taste for kissing

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live, yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
You don't know what love is

You don't know how hearts burn
For love that cannot live, yet never dies
Until you've faced each dawn with sleepless eyes
How could you know what love is, what love is

Listening to You Don’t Know What Love Is , makes me think of the background music from a Mickie Splaine book. It has that sultry tone.

@curiousjim 

Which version?

Like @frogman I find Coltrane's version melancholy-sounding.