Blue Note session · in the studio
April 16, 1953
Kenny Drew Trio
In the room
- Kenny Drew – piano
Curley Russell – bass · as Curly Russell
Art Blakey – drums
The takes
2 of these 10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN469-3 · tk. 4 | Lover Come Back To Me | BLP 5023 |
| BN470-1 · tk. 6 | Yesterdays (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) BNJ-71002 |
| BN470-2 · tk. 7 | Yesterdays | BLP 5023 |
| BN471-0 · tk. 8 | Everything Happens To Me | BLP 5023 |
| BN472-1 · tk. 11 | Spring Will Be A Little Late | BLP 5023 |
| BN473-2 · tk. 14 | Be My Love | BLP 5023 |
| BN474-1 · tk. 16 | Drew's Blues | BLP 5023 |
| BN475-0 · tk. 17 | Gloria | BLP 5023 |
| BN476-1 · tk. 19 | Stella By Starlight | BLP 5023 |
| BN471-2 · tk. 20 | Everything Happens To Me (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) BNJ-71002 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
