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Silver's Serenade
| Recorded | May 7-8, 1963 |
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| Label | Blue Note |
| Catalog | 84131 |
| Released | 1963 |
| Personnel | 5 credited players |
| Discogs | master 344555 |
The record
Years into their run together, Mitchell and Cook settle into an easy, unhurried swagger, with the title track showing off a melodic gift as catchy as it is sophisticated.
Session personnel
- Gene Taylor — bass
- Roy Brooks — drums
- Horace Silver — piano
- Junior Cook — saxophone [tenor]
- Blue Mitchell — trumpet
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Both 1963 issues carry the full set of markers -- deep groove, RVG stamp, Plastylite ear, laminated sleeve -- mono on BLP 4131 and stereo on 84131, with one mono showing the groove on side two only. The 1966 repressings still show the ear, so an ear alone does not make a copy early here. For a current pressing, the 2024 Blue Note 180 gram gatefold is the safe buy; the 2018 DOL mono, DOL1022HG, is listed as unofficial.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 26 pressings on file.
| 1963 | Blue Note · BLP 4131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, DG side 2 earliest on file · deep groove (one side); RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
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| 1963 | Blue Note · 84131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1963 | Blue Note · BLP 4131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1963 | Blue Note · BLP 4131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1966 | Blue Note · 4131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Mono · deep groove; RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1966 | Blue Note · BST 84131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear |
| 1966 | Blue Note · 84131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress, Stereo · RVG stamp; Plastylite ear; laminated sleeve |
| 1967 | Blue Note · BST 84131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1967 | Blue Note · BST 84131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1973 | Blue Note · BST 84131 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Reissue · RVG stamp |
| 1994 | Blue Note · TOCJ-4131 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1998 | Blue Note · CDP 7243 8 21288 2 3 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1998 | Blue Note · 7243 8 21288 2 3 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp |
| 1998 | Blue Note · CDP 521288 — CD, Album, Club Edition, Reissue, Remastered · RVG stamp |
Follow the players
Gene Taylor also plays on
Roy Brooks also plays on
Horace Silver also plays on