Portrait in Jazz + 7 Bonus tracks CD edition with 28-page booklet featuring new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz's Brian Morton and by Paris' prestigious publication, Jazz Magazine.
"Evans' great innovation was to make the bass player and drummer, in this case, the sublime Paul Motian, equal partners in the music. LaFaro's bass constantly offers countermelodies to the piano lines. Though there are ballad performances as well, this is Evans at his most upbeat, almost joyous. If it lacks the sheer immersiveness of the Village Vanguard date, it is also, much more open, and accessible." - Brian Morton, Penguin Guide to Jazz
Bill Evans, piano
Scott LaFaro, bass
Paul Motian, drums
New York, December 28, 1959.
1. Come Rain or Come Shine
2. Autumn Leaves
3. Witchcraft
4. When I Fall In Love
5. Peri's Scope
6. What is This Thing Called Love?
7. Spring is Here
8. Someday My Prince Will Come
9. Blue In Green
10. Israel
11. Haunted Heart
12. Beautiful Love
13. Elsa
14. How Deep is the Ocean?
15. I Wish I Knew
16. Nardis