Portrait in Jazz (20 Bit Mastering) [Original recording remastered]

Bill Evans | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 27, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 1959
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Riverside
• Run Time: 51 minutes
• ASIN: B00005R8DE
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,788 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come Rain Or Come Shine

2. Autumn Leaves [Take 1]

3. Autumn Leaves [Take 2] [*]

4. Witchcraft

5. When I Fall In Love

6. Peri's Scope

7. What Is This Thing Called Love?

8. Spring Is Here

9. Someday My Prince Will Come

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect intro to the Evans-LaFaro-Motian trio, February 27, 2002

By 

Mike Johnston (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Portrait in Jazz (20 Bit Mastering) (Audio CD)

If you like Bill Evans (and I really do--he's got a smooth / lounge aesthetic but with guts, heart, and brains), this is a great album to have; if you think you might like him, it's a good place to start. Evans is an accessible yet deeply original and inventive pianist who is not afraid of pianistic beauty. He's a virtuoso yet never a show-off. And the celebrated "telepathic" communication between Evans and bassist Scott LaFaro, whose tragic early death devastated Evans, is amply evident on this release. (With drummer Paul Motian, this is the same trio that made the masterpiece "Waltz for Debbie.")

The sound on Fantasy's 20-bit remastering is, I swear, the same as the XRCD. It's rich and smooth and virtually as good as a modern recording despite having been recorded in 1959. Tape hiss is just not a problem. Even the standing bass sounds good, which is unusual since that instrument seems to record badly. If you can get with the suave, urbane, laid-back 1950s jazz club atmosphere of this music--or anywhere near it--this is a completely recommendable disc. But do be sure to get this remastering, with the cardboard slipcover that has the wide red surround.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Ballad Man!, February 18, 2003

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Carl Johnson "budbear_5000" (Detroit, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portrait in Jazz (20 Bit Mastering) (Audio CD)

Bill Evans is one of the most lyrical pianist you will ever here on this planet. This is one of his best recordings. My Father liked, "Spring Is Here" and the album that was kind of based on the theme contain in the song, a lot. Most of you that are looking at buying this version of this record you can't lose. Bill was jazz genius! Period! Phemominal spin! Oh... the remaster is fuller sounding...