Cassandra Wilson - You Don't Know What Love Is

[Canard]

A common enough standard, often performed as an instrumental but far more evocative when sung.

Wilson does a very unusual stripped down arrangement with an acoustic guitar accompaniment :



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Nina

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[Canard]

Elaine

 

[kitniyatran]

Cassandra's great, but there's something about Chet Baker; great trumpeter and song stylist, tragic later life.
Then again, once Nina Simone sang a song, it had been SUNG!
Never heard of Elaine, but she seems to have a good, "smokey " voice.
Great song to post! Thanks