Format Details: Lp /
Format Details: Blue Vinyl
Release Date: 30 August 2016
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8437012830820
Genres: Jazz
Release Date: 25 March 2022
Label: Groove Replica
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436569195628
Genres: Jazz
Release Date: 17 April 2026
Label: Jazz Images
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8436569196175
Genres: Jazz
Description
"Portrait in Jazz" was Bill Evans' third LP as a leader, following "New Jazz Conceptions" (1956) and Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1958). It also marked the recording debut of the pianist's trio featuring the brilliant bassist Scott LaFaro. This group, completed by drummer Paul Motian, is still considered one of the best jazz formations of all time. However, it wouldn't last long - right after the taping of their widely celebrated June 1961 club recordings at New York's Village Vanguard, LaFaro died in a car accident on July 6, when he was only 25.
"Portrait in Jazz" was enthusiastically received at the time of its release, and jazz critic Don DeMicheal granted it five stars in his Down Beat review, stating that, "If there's any doubt that Evans is one of the freshest things to happen to the piano in the last few years, this album should dispel any such feelings. The trio is a closely integrated unit. Here is an album with meaning - here is truth."
Description
Classic Bill Evans Trio album on 180g vinyl LP, plus a bonus CD that contains the complete album + 6 bonus tracks. The LP contains an extra track from the same session not included on the original LP.
"If there's any doubt that Evans is one of the freshest things to happen to the piano in the last few years, this album should dispel any such feelings. The trio is a closely integrated unit. The interplay among the three men is best illustrated in 'Leaves', wherein they carry on a three-way conversation, with bassist Scott LaFaro leading the discussion. 'Witchcraft' finds LaFaro making pungent comments on Evans' statements and drummer Motian egging on both of them. Here is an album with meaning - here is truth." - Don DeMicheal, DownBeat
Description
Classic Bill Evans LP pressed on 180g blue transparent vinyl - the complete album + 1 bonus track, includes exclusive cover and back cover photographs by the famous French jazz photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir. Portrait in Jazz was Bill Evans' third album as a leader and his first LP with the talented bassist Scott LaFaro. The Evans-LaFaro collaboration would reach a climax with their June 1961 club recordings at the Village Vanguard in New York.
Portrait in Jazz is made up of eight popular standards plus a couple of original compositions; Evan's 'Peri's Scope', and 'Blue in Green, co-composed by Evans and Miles Davis and first taped in March of 1959 by the two musicians in Miles' sextet that produced the perennial classic, Kind of Blue.
This special edition features exclusive photographs by famous French jazz photographer Jean-Pierre Leloir.
Includes the bonus track 'Autumn Leaves' (Mono take) from the same session but not on the original LP.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Django Reinhardt
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Chet Baker
Jackie Mclean
Sonny Rollins
John Coltrane & Johnny Griffin
Art Blakey
Bill Evans
Bill Evans
Bill Evans Trio
Bill Evans
Bill Evans Trio
Bill Evans & Jim Hall
Bill Evans, Shelly Manne & Monty Budwig
Bill Evans
