Bill Evans – Portrait In Jazz

Description

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.