Tracklist:

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. Some Day My Prince Will Come
9. Blue In Green
10. Blue In Green (Alternate Take) (Bonus Track)

“Portrait in Jazz” was Bill Evans’ third NYL – album as a leader, following “New Jazz Conceptions” (1956) and “Everybody Digs Bill Evans” (1958). It was also Evans’ first LP with the talented bassist Scott LaFaro. Their superb team work is obvious from the very first tune, and Evans was surely aware of that. As opposed to his previous albums, no solo piano selections were included here and the trio is heard throughout the whole LP. The Evans-LaFaro collaboration would reach a climax with their June 1961 club recordings at the Village Vanguard in New York. LaFaro would die in a car accident soon after (on July 6, 1961), at the age of 25.