Blue Note session · in the studio
November 10, 1957
Cliff Jordan Quintet
In the room
- Clifford Jordan – tenor sax
- Art Farmer – trumpet
- Sonny Clark – piano
- George Tucker – bass
- Louis Hayes – 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. 1 | Confirmation | BLP 1582 |
| tk. 4 | Anthropology | BLP 1582 |
| tk. 7 | Soul-Lo Blues | BLP 1582 |
| tk. 9 | Laconia | BLP 1582 |
| tk. 11 | Cliff Craft | BLP 1582 |
| tk. 13 | Sophisticated Lady | BLP 1582 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1583 | Curtis Fuller Volume 3 | Curtis Fuller | 1960 | Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker, Louis Hayes |
3 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1570 | Dial "S" for Sonny | Sonny Clark | 1957 | Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1589 | Further Explorations | Horace Silver | 1958 | Clifford Jordan, Art Farmer, Louis Hayes |
2 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1562 | The Stylings of Silver | Horace Silver | 1957 | Art Farmer, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1587 | Back on the Scene | Bennie Green | 1958 | George Tucker, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1588 | Cool Struttin' | Sonny Clark | 1958 | Art Farmer, Sonny Clark |
