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Jazz Workshop · in the Kissa Kissa racks

Junior's Cookin'

Junior's Cookin' cover
RecordedApr 10, 1961
LabelJazz Workshop
Released1961
Personnel6 credited players
Discogsmaster 646734

The record

Cut in 1961 with Blue Mitchell alongside him in the front line, this date finds the Horace Silver tenor man stepping out as leader with the same hard-bop snap and blues-rooted swing that defined that band's classic run.

Session personnel

  • Gene Taylor — bass
  • Roy Brooks — drums
  • Dolo Coker — piano
  • Ronnie Mathews — piano
  • Junior Cook — tenor saxophone
  • Blue Mitchell — trumpet

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

1961Jazzland · JLP 58 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file
1961Jazzland · JLP 958 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo
1961Jazzland · JLP 58 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Mono
1966Jazzland · JLP 958 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1966Jazzland · JLP 958 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo
1991Jazzland · WWLJ-7036 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
1997Jazzland · VICJ-60006 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Mono
1999Original Jazz Classics · OJCCD-1002-2 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, Mono
2006Jazzland · VICJ-41391 — CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo, Mono
2008Original Jazz Classics · 00025218700221 — CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
2008Jazzland · UCCO-9428 — CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered
2012Jazz Workshop — STEREO, LIMITED EDITION

Follow the players

Gene Taylor also plays on

Roy Brooks also plays on

Dolo Coker also plays on

Ronnie Mathews also plays on