Blue Note session · in the studio
September 22, 1957
Sonny Rollins Quartet
In the room
Sonny Rollins – tenor sax
Wynton Kelly – piano- Doug Watkins – bass
Philly Joe Jones – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 5 | Tune Up | BLP 4001 |
| tk. 9 | Asiatic Raes | BLP 4001 |
| tk. 13 | Surrey With The Fringe On Top | BLP 4001 |
| tk. 15 | Wonderful! Wonderful! | BLP 4001 |
| tk. 17 | Namely You | BLP 4001 |
| tk. 19 | Blues For Philly Joe | BLP 4001 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
