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The Cat
| Recorded | Apr 27-29, 1964 |
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| Label | Verve Records |
| Released | 1964 |
| Personnel | 20 credited players |
| Discogs | master 33130 |
The record
Lalo Schifrin's arrangements dress the Hammond in French horns and bass trombone, brassy and orchestral against a tight bass-and-drums pulse. A funkier, big-room turn for Smith's Verve years.
Session personnel
- George Duvivier — bass
- Tony Studd — bass trombone
- Grady Tate — drums
- Bill Correa — french horn
- Earl Chapin — french horn
- Jim Buffington — french horn
- Ray Alonge — french horn
- Kenny Burrell — guitar
- Jimmy Smith — organ
- Phil Kraus — percussion
- Billy Byers — trombone
- Jimmy Cleveland — trombone
- Urbie Green — trombone
- Bernie Glow — trumpet
- Ernie Royal — trumpet
- Jimmy Maxwell — trumpet
- Marky Markowitz — trumpet
- Snooky Young — trumpet
- Thad Jones — trumpet
- Don Butterfield — tuba
Contemporary reception
No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.
Pressings
Verve released this in 1964 in both mono, V-8587, and stereo, V6-8587, and US copies of either carry an RVG stamp in the deadwax and a gatefold sleeve. The UK ran VLP 9079 in mono the same year. For a clean modern copy, Speakers Corner remastered the stereo at 180 gram in 2000 as 901364-1; Japan's 2005 UCJU-9027 is the other option.
Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 120 pressings on file.
| 1964 | Verve Records · V-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold earliest on file · RVG stamp; gatefold |
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| 1964 | Verve Records · V6-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V6-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V6-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · SVLP 9079 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | Verve Records · SMV-1004 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | Verve Records · VSTC 322 — Reel-To-Reel, 7 ½ ips, ¼", 4-Track Stereo, 7" Cine Reel, Album · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V6-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V-68587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · RVG stamp |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V6-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, MGM Bloomfield Pressing · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · VMLP-14061 — Vinyl, LP, Album · RVG stamp; gatefold |
| 1964 | Verve Records · V-8587 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, Gatefold · RVG stamp; gatefold |
Follow the players
George Duvivier also plays on
Tony Studd also plays on