Blue Note session · in the studio
January 31, 1953
Gil Melle Quintet
In the room
- Gil Melle – tenor sax
Eddie Bert – trombone
Tal Farlow – guitar- Clyde Lombardi – bass
Joe Morello – drums
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN465-4 · tk. 5 | Cyclotron | BLP 5020 |
| BN466-2 · tk. 8 | October | BLP 5020 |
| BN467-0 · tk. 10 | Under Capricorn | BLP 5020 |
| BN468-0 · tk. 13 | Venus | BLP 5020 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5033 | Gil Melle Quintet Vol. 2 | Gil Melle Quintet | 1954 | Gil Melle, Tal Farlow, Clyde Lombardi, Joe Morello |
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5042 | Tal Farlow Quartet | Tal Farlow Quartet | 1954 | Tal Farlow, Clyde Lombardi, Joe Morello |
