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Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz (1960 Album) with sheet music
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Portrait in Jazz
1.Come Rain or Come Shine - 0:00 2.Autumn Leaves - 3:21 3.Witchcraft - 9:21 4.When I Fall in Love - 13:56 5.Peri's Scope - 18:51 6.What is This Thing Called Love - 22:03 7.Spring is Here - 26:39 8.Someday My Prince Will Come - 31:46 9.Blue in Green - 36:41
Portrait in Jazz is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1960.
History
Eight months after his successful collaboration with Miles Davis on the album Kind of Blue, Evans recorded Portrait in Jazz with a new group (the Bill Evans Trio) that helped change 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).
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Reception
Reviewing it for Allmusic, music critic Scott Yanow wrote of the album: "... the influential interpretations were far from routine or predictable at the time. LaFaro and Motian were nearly equal partners with the pianist in the ensembles... A gem." Danny Eccleston of Mojo wrote: "Portrait In Jazz - Evans' fifth record as a band leader - gets you every which way. At its least great, it is merely brilliant... But what makes Evans extra-extra-special is the way his playing drags you in and shares the vulnerability at its core. Oh, the humanity!"
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Track listing
- "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) – 3:24
- "Autumn Leaves" (Joseph Kosma, Jacques Prévert, Johnny Mercer) – 6:00
- "Witchcraft" (Cy Coleman, Carolyn Leigh) – 4:37
- "When I Fall in Love" (Victor Young, Edward Heyman) – 4:57
- "Peri's Scope" (Bill Evans) – 3:15
- "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 4:36
- "Spring Is Here" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 5:09
- "Someday My Prince Will Come" (Frank Churchill, Larry Morey) – 4:57
- "Blue in Green" (Miles Davis, Bill Evans) – 5:25
Personnel
Additional personnel
- Orrin Keepnews – producer
- Jack Higgins – engineer
- George Horn – mastering
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Bill Evans
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His extensive use of impressionist harmony, block chords, innovative chord voicings, and trademark rhythmically independent "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today.
Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, Bill Evans studied classical music at Southeastern Louisiana College and the Mannes School of Music, in New York City, where he majored in composition and received an artist diploma. In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, which in 1959, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded Kind of Blue, the best-selling jazz album of all time.
In late 1959, Bill Evans left Davis's band and began his career as a leader, forming a trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. They recorded two studio albums, Portrait in Jazz and Explorations, and two albums recorded during a 1961 engagement at New York's Village Vanguard jazz club: Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. A complete set (on three CDs) of their Vanguard recordings was issued decades later. Ten days after this booking ended, LaFaro died in a car crash.
After months without public performances, Evans reemerged with a new trio featuring Chuck Israels on bass. In 1963, Evans recorded the Grammy Award–winning Conversations with Myself, a solo album produced with overdubbing technology. In 1966, he met bassist Eddie Gómez, with whom he worked for the next 11 years. In the mid-1970s, Evans collaborated with the singer Tony Bennett on two critically acclaimed albums: The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album (1975) and Together Again (1977).
Many of Bill Evans's compositions, such as "Waltz for Debby" and "Time Remembered", have become standards, played and recorded by many artists. Evans received 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame.