The Cat

Tracklist

• 1
  Theme From “Joy House”
  4:40
• 2
  The Cat
  3:26
• 3
  Basin Street Blues
  4:01
• 4
  Main Title From “The Carpetbaggers”
  3:59
• 5
  Chicago Serenade
  3:59
• 6
  St. Louis Blues
  3:18
• 7
  Delon’s Blues
  4:48
• 8
  Blues in the Night
  4:46

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Cool Blues 1980

Root Down

Root Down 1972

Christmas Cookin’

Christmas Cookin’ 1964

Back at the Chicken Shack

Back at the Chicken Shack 1963

Midnight Special

Midnight Special 1961

Release credits

• Bernie Glow
  trumpet
• Bill Corea
  French horn
• Bill Correa
  French horn [2, 8]
• Billy Byers
  trombone
• Creed Taylor
  producer
• Don Butterfield
  tuba
• Earl Chapin
  French horn
• Ernie Royal
  trumpet
• George Duvivier
  bass, bass guitar [8]
• Grady Tate
  drums (drum set)
• Jim Buffington
  French horn
• Jimmy Cleveland
  trombone
• Jimmy Maxwell
  trumpet
• Jimmy Smith
  organ
• Kenny Burrell
  guitar
• Lalo Schifrin
  arranger, conductor
• Marky Markowitz
  trumpet
• Phil Kraus
  percussion
• Phil Woods
  alto saxophone [2, 8]
• Ray Alonge
  French horn
• Rudy van Gelder
  engineer
• Snooky Young
  trumpet
• Thad Jones
  trumpet
• Tony Studd
  bass trombone
• Urbie Green
  trombone
• Show all credits (25)

Issues

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  The Cat

  Reel-to-reel
  September 1964
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  The Cat

  12" Vinyl
  1964
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  The Cat

  CD
  1998
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  The Cat

  CD
  23 April 2003
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  The Cat

  CD
  20 September 2005
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  The Cat

  SHM-CD
  20 May 2008
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  The Cat

  Digital Media (24-bit 192 kHz)
  2013
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  The Cat

  SACD
  26 November 2014
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  The Cat

  SHM-SACD (SHM-SACD)
  6 August 2025