Blue Note session · in the studio
May 20, 1953
Howard McGhee Sextet
In the room
Howard McGhee – trumpet- Gigi Gryce – alto sax, flute
Tal Farlow – guitar
Horace Silver – piano
Percy Heath – bass- Walter Bolden – drums
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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN483-2 · tk. 3 | Shabozz | BLP 5024 |
| BN484-2 · tk. 6 | Tranquillity | BLP 5024 |
| BN485-1 · tk. 8 | Futurity | BLP 5024 |
| BN486-0 · tk. 9 | Jarm (fast version) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note 7243 4 95748 2 3 |
| BN486-1 · tk. 10 | Jarm | BLP 5024 |
| BN487-1 · tk. 12 | Ittapanna | BLP 5024 |
| BN488-2 · tk. 15 | Goodbye | BLP 5024 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | PRLP 181 | Art Farmer Quintet | The Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce | 1954 | Gigi Gryce, Horace Silver, Percy Heath |
 | PRLP 7085 | When Farmer Met Gryce | The Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce | 1957 | Gigi Gryce, Horace Silver, Percy Heath |
