Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz (1973 Japanese Riverside Stereo LP)

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Bill Evans Trio - Portrait in Jazz | Vinyl LP - 1973 Japanese Riverside Stereo Reissue (MW 2062, Riverside Jazz Anthology, Polydor K.K.)

Scott LaFaro approached Bill Evans at Basin Street East in mid-1959 and proposed forming a trio, suggesting Paul Motian as drummer. They had been working together for six months when they went into Reeves Sound Studios on December 28, 1959. Evans had returned from nine months with the Miles Davis Sextet, which had just recorded Kind of Blue, and he brought one of that album's compositions into the session.

Eight of the ten tracks are standards. "Come Rain or Come Shine" (Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, 1946) opens the record. "Autumn Leaves" — Joseph Kosma and Jacques Prévert's song, in the Johnny Mercer English lyric — appears twice on this pressing, the two takes from the original mono and stereo editions placed consecutively. "Witchcraft" is Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh's 1957 piece. "When I Fall in Love" is Edward Heyman and Victor Young's 1952 standard. Side B covers Cole Porter's "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (1929), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's "Spring Is Here" (1938), and "Someday My Prince Will Come" from Walt Disney's Snow White (1937), taken at a slow ballad tempo Evans would return to.

The two originals define the album's lasting reputation. "Peri's Scope", Evans's own, named for his girlfriend, has been covered many dozens of times since. "Blue in Green" is listed here as a co-composition by Davis and Evans. Evans said Davis handed him two chord symbols, G minor and A augmented, and asked what he would do with them; Evans went home and wrote the piece.

This is the 1973 Japanese Riverside Jazz Anthology stereo reissue (MW 2062), manufactured by Polydor K.K., with obi strip and insert and SJ Seal of Approval.