Blue Note session · in the studio
September 13, 1948
The Tadd Dameron Septet / The Tadd Dameron Sextet
In the room
- Tadd Dameron – piano
- Fats Navarro – trumpet
- Allen Eager – tenor sax
- Wardell Gray – tenor sax
- Kenny 'Pancho' Hagood – vocal
- Curley Russell – bass
- Kenny Clarke – drums
- Chino Pozo – bongo
The takes
1 of these 7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN332-0 | Jahbero (alternate take) | BLP 1532 |
| BN332-1 | Jahbero | 78 · 559, BLP 1532 |
| BN333-0 | Lady Bird | 78 · 559, BLP 5004, BLP 1532 |
| BN333-1 | Lady Bird (alternate take) | BLP 1532 |
| BN334-1 | Symphonette | 78 · 1564, BLP 1532 |
| BN334-2 | Symphonette (alternate take) | BLP 1532 |
| BN335-1 | I Think I'll Go Away | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) BNJ-61008/10 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5004 | Fats Navarro Memorial Album · not on the site yet | The Tadd Dameron Sextet Featuring Fats Navarro | 1952 | Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro, Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke |
 | BLP 1531 | The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 1 | Fats Navarro | 1957 | Tadd Dameron, Fats Navarro, Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke |
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5012 | The McGhee-Navarro Sextet · not on the site yet | Howard McGhee's All Stars | 1952 | Fats Navarro, Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke |