John Coltrane Quartet - You Don't Know What Love Is free for downloading

I think only someone with a really beautiful soul could play music like this. I feel lucky to have walked the earth while he was still among us.

I know what love is !! My teddy dishes it out everyday !!

This is Track 2 in the Ballads album. Such a hauntingly sad and passionate song. Written in 1941 but only came into prominence after Miles Davis recorded it in 1954. I also love the vocal versions by Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Nina Simone and Chet Baker. So thankful that Coltrane wanted to show up his critics that he could still play melodic music. In 1961 Coltrane was Impulse the new record label first signing and his first two albums with this label were adventurous free jazz with his sheets of sound technique, an ability to play several notes at once amid wondrous cascades of scales. Many jazz critics and fans were dismayed, finding the new free jazz foreign to their ears, with many hostile reviews that it wasn't jazz (as they know it). Coltrane wanted to prove he could still play slow introspective music, and Bob Thiele the Impulse producer was keen to have a varied catalogue from his star performer. So we get Ballads, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman, Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, all wonderfully beautiful relaxing music, showing the lighter and less aggressive side of Coltrane.

A man’s talent that transcends words and preceded him entirely.

if this is the result (edit: of not knowing what love is), i'm happier not knowing (because this is pure deliciousness).

Good for everything.