Blue Note session · in the studio
March 27, 1955
Hank Mobley Quartet
In the room
- Hank Mobley – tenor sax
Horace Silver – piano- Doug Watkins – bass
Art Blakey – drums
The takes
2 of these 8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 2 | Walkin' The Fence (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) CJ28-5128 |
| tk. 3 | Walkin' The Fence | BLP 5066 |
| tk. 5 | Avila & Tequila | BLP 5066 |
| tk. 6 | Hank's Pranks (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) CJ28-5128 |
| tk. 8 | Hank's Pranks | BLP 5066 |
| tk. 10 | Just Coolin' | BLP 5066 |
| tk. 12 | My Sin | BLP 5066 |
| tk. 14 | Love For Sale | BLP 5066 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
The whole band 10 albums
3 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5065 | Afro-Cuban | Kenny Dorham | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 1539 | 6 Pieces of Silver | Horace Silver | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins |
 | BLP 1535 | Afro-Cuban | Kenny Dorham | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey |
