Blue Note session · in the studio
April 24, 1954
Jutta Hipp Quintet
In the room
Jutta Hipp – piano
Emil Mangelsdorff – alto sax
Joki Freund – tenor sax- Horst Lippmann – supervisor
- Hans Kresse – bass
- Karl Sanner – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| – | Cleopatra | BLP 5056 |
| – | Don't Worry 'Bout Me | BLP 5056 |
| – | Ghost Of A Chance | BLP 5056 |
| – | I Never Knew (as Mon Petit) | BLP 5056 |
| – | What's New | BLP 5056 |
| – | Blue Skies | BLP 5056 |
| – | Laura | BLP 5056 |
| – | Variations | BLP 5056 |
8 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it
