Portrait in Jazz

Infobox Album | Name = Portrait in Jazz
Type = Album
Artist = Bill Evans

| Released = 1959
Recorded = December 28, 1959
Genre = Jazz
Length = 52:10
Label = Riverside Records
Producer = Bill Grauer, Orrin Keepnews
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6mkcu3qgan7k link] | Last album = "Green Dolphin Street"
(1959)
This album = " Portrait in Jazz "
(1959)
Next album = "Explorations"
(1961)

"Portrait in Jazz" is a 1959 (see 1959 in music) album by jazz musician Bill Evans.

Eight months after his successful collaboration with Miles Davis on the album "Kind of Blue", pianist Evans recorded "Portrait in Jazz" with a new trio that changed the direction of modern jazz. Most noticeably, LaFaro's bass is promoted from a mere accompanying instrument to one of almost equal status to the piano (though not to the extent that it would be on later albums such as "Sunday at the Village Vanguard"). It is one of Evans' more up-tempo and swinging albums (the presence of several ballads notwithstanding).

Track listing

#"Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:19
#"Autumn Leaves" (take 1) (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Mercer) – 5:54
#"Autumn Leaves" (mono) – 5:23
#"Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 4:30
#"When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 4:52
#"Peri's Scope" (Bill Evans) – 3:10
#"What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 4:32
#"Spring is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:02
#"Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 4:50
#"Blue in Green" (take 3) (Miles Davis, Evans) – 5:20
#"Blue in Green" [mono] (take 2) – 4:25

Personnel

* Bill Evans - Piano
* Scott LaFaro - Bass
* Paul Motian - Drums
* Orrin Keepnews - Producer
* Jack Higgins - Engineer
* George Horn - Mastering