Recorded in 1963 silver's Serenade" was the last complete recording by a cast of players first assembled in 1959 (i.e. Blue Mitchell-trumpet, Junior Cook-tenor sax, Horace silver-piano, Gene Taylor-bass and Roy Brooks-drums). This band had made five previous albums for blue note, all of them successful. The playing on this session is a meld of relaxed, soulful and swinging hard bop as evidenced in the title track. "Silver's serenade" is vintage, nicely representative music by the pianist-composer's best known ensemble. Higly recommended.