Blue Note session · in the studio
February 5, 1941
Edmond Hall Celeste Quartet
- This day's music is on 2 records: Memorable Sessions, Mellow The Mood: Jazz In A Mellow Mood
In the room
Edmond Hall – clarinet
Charlie Christian – acoustic guitar
Meade Lux Lewis – celeste
Israel Crosby – bass
The takes
What the numbers mean
BN308-2 is a matrix number: Blue Note gave every tune it recorded the next number in one running series (BN308 is "Humph"), and the figure after the dash is which take of that tune was kept. Early on the series starts each tune's takes at 0, so -0 is usually the first try.
tk. 5 is the take as counted through the whole day, from the first tune to the last: the way the studio's log and, from the mid-1950s, Rudy Van Gelder's tapes number them. Later dates have only these.
On the earliest records (1939–40) the numbers in the matrix place, like 486A-1 or GM535-6, are the masters' numbers from the studios and pressing plants Blue Note used before it had its own series.
| Matrix · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| R3459A | Jamming In Four | 78 · 18, BLP 5026 |
| R3460 | Edmond Hall Blues | 78 · 18, BLP 5026 |
| R3461 | Profoundly Blue | 78 · 17, 45 · 45-1634, BLP 5001 |
| R3461-2 | Profoundly Blue No. 2 | BLP 5026 |
| R3462A-2 | Celestial Express | 78 · 17, BLP 5026 |
Where it ended up
BLP 5026 · 1953Memorable SessionsVarious Artists
BLP 5001 · 1952Mellow The Mood: Jazz In A Mellow MoodVarious ArtistsTogether elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
2 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 7007 | Jamming In Jazz · not on the site yet | Hall-DeParis Blue Note Jazz Men | 1952 | Edmond Hall, Israel Crosby |