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.
Side 1
1. COME RAIN OR COME SHINE
2. AUTUMN LEAVES
3. WITCHCRAFT
4. WHEN I FALL IN LOVE
5. PERI'S SCOPE
Side 2
1. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
2. SPRING IS HERE
3. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE WILL COME
4. BLUE IN GREEN
5. AUTUMN LEAVES [Mono take]
