Blue Note session · in the studio
January 31, 1945
Benny Morton's All Stars Featuring Webster & Bigard
- This day's music is on 2 records: Mellow The Mood: Jazz In A Mellow Mood, Swing Hi-Swing Lo
In the room
Benny Morton – trombone
Ben Webster – tenor sax
Barney Bigard – clarinet- Sammy Benskin – piano
Israel Crosby – bass- Eddie Dougherty – drums
The takes
1 of these 5 takes stayed in the vault at the time: alternates and tunes that weren't issued. Switch to hear only the ones that came out on the records.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN219-0 | My Old Flame | 78 · 47, BLP 5001 |
| BN220-0 | Conversing In Blue | 78 · 46, BLP 5027 |
| BN221-0 | The Sheik Of Araby | 78 · 46 |
| BN221-2 | The Sheik Of Araby (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Mosaic MR1-115 |
| BN222-0 | Limehouse Blues | 78 · 47, BLP 5027 |
Where it ended up
BLP 5001 · 1952Mellow The Mood: Jazz In A Mellow MoodVarious Artists
BLP 5027 · 1953Swing Hi-Swing LoVarious ArtistsTogether elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
2 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | CL 637 | Lady Day | Billie Holiday | 1961 | Benny Morton, Ben Webster |