Bill Evans - Portraits At The Penthouse LP (RSD Black Friday 2025)

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Brand new and unplayed. 

Portraits at the Penthouse: Live in Seattle is the first official release of the sublime pianist Bill Evans recorded live at the Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA on May 12 and 19, 1966 with bassist Eddie Gomez and drummer Joe Hunt. This is Resonance's eighth official release in cooperation with the Bill Evans Estate, and was originally recorded by radio DJ Jim Wilke for KING-FM radio. Transferred from the original tapes and restored and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, the limited-edition 180g LP edition includes an extensive booklet with rare photographs, newly-commissioned liner notes by Evans scholar Marc Myers, and interviews and testimonials from Eddie Gomez, Joe Hunt and piano legend Bob James. Pressed at audiophile boutique pressing plant, Le Vinylist in Quebec, Canada.