Blue Note session · in the studio
November 18, 1957
Lee Morgan Quartet
In the room
Lee Morgan – trumpet- Sonny Clark – piano
- Doug Watkins – bass
Art Taylor – drums
The takes
2 of these 4 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. 4 | Since I Fell For You | BLP 1590 |
| tk. 7 | Personality | BLP 1590 |
| tk. 14 | All At Once, You Love Her (as Untitled Morgan Tune) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) BNJ-61008/10 |
| – | Who Do You Love, I Hope | Rejected at the session |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
2 of them 22 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | PRLP 7035 | Lights Out! | The Jackie McLean Quintet With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope | 1956 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7048 | 4, 5 And 6 | Jackie McLean | 1956 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7060 | Hi Fi Jam Session | Gene Ammons All Stars | 1956 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7061 | Mobleys Message | Hank Mobley Quintet, Quartet, Sextet | 1956 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7062 | 2 Trumpets | Farmer/Byrd | 1956 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1565 | Cliff Jordan | Cliff Jordan | 1957 | Lee Morgan, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1572 | Bone & Bari | Curtis Fuller | 1957 | Sonny Clark, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7073 | All Night Long | Donald Byrd, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Burrell, Hank Mobley, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7081 | All Day Long | Frank Foster, Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7082 | Mobley's 2nd Message | Hank Mobley Quintet | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7083 | Funky: Hi-Fi Jam Session | Gene Ammons | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7087 | Jackie McLean & Co. Introducing Ray Draper & Tuba | Jackie McLean & Co. Introducing Ray Draper & Tuba | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7114 | Alto Madness | Jackie McLean/John Jenkins | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7119 | 2 Guitars | Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Raney With Byrd, McLean, Waldron, Watkins, Taylor | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1568 | Hank Mobley | Hank Mobley | 1958 | Sonny Clark, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1575 | City Lights | Lee Morgan | 1958 | Lee Morgan, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1576 | Sonny's Crib | Sonny Clark | 1958 | Sonny Clark, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1591 | Lou Takes Off | Lou Donaldson | 1958 | Sonny Clark, Art Taylor |
 | BLP 1594 | Smithville | Louis Smith | 1958 | Sonny Clark, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7131 | Wheelin' & Dealin' | Frank Wess, John Coltrane, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins, Arthur Taylor | 1958 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7146 | Blue Gene | Gene Ammons | 1958 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |
 | PRLP 7180 | Gene Ammons Quintet | Gene Ammons Quintet | 1960 | Doug Watkins, Art Taylor |