Blue Note session · in the studio
December 22, 1947
Art Blakey's Messengers
In the room
Art Blakey – drums
Kenny Dorham – trumpet- Howard Bowe – trombone
- Edmund Gregory – alto sax
- Orland Wright – tenor sax
- Ernest Thompson – baritone sax
- Walter Bishop Jr. – piano
- LaVerne Barker – bass
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN322-3 | The Thin Man | 78 · 545, BLP 5010 |
| BN323-1 | The Bop Alley | 78 · 546, BLP 5010 |
| BN323-2 | The Bop Alley (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84436 2 |
| BN324-2 | Groove Street | 78 · 546 |
| BN325-1 | Musa's Vision | 78 · 545 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
