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Silver's Serenade

Recorded	May 7-8, 1963
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
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