Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

February 9, 1958

Hank Mobley - Lee Morgan Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ

In the room

The takes

3 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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 2High And Flighty (alternate take) Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 81574 2
tk. 3High And Flighty BLP 1574
tk. 4Stretchin' Out (alternate take) Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 81574 2
tk. 5Stretchin' Out BLP 1574
tk. 6Peckin' Time BLP 1574
tk. 10Git-Go Blues BLP 1574
tk. 11Speak Low BLP 1574
tk. 12Speak Low (alternate take) Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 81574 2
All 8 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

4 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1540Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee MorganHank Mobley1957Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip
BLP 1541Lee Morgan Sextet (Vol. 2)Lee Morgan1957Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip
BLP 1557Lee Morgan Vol. 3Lee Morgan1957Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip
BLP 1559A Blowing SessionJohnny Griffin1957Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers

2 of them 11 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 5070The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Vol. 3 · not on the site yetJay Jay Johnson Quintet1955Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers
BLP 1506The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2J.J. Johnson1956Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers
PRLP 7043Informal JazzElmo Hope Sextet1956Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers
BLP 1565Cliff JordanCliff Jordan1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
BLP 1567The OpenerCurtis Fuller1957Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers
BLP 1577Blue TrainJohn Coltrane1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
BLP 1578The CookerLee Morgan1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
PRLP 7074Tenor ConclaveHank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane, Zoot Sims1957Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers
BLP 1568Hank MobleyHank Mobley1958Hank Mobley, Paul Chambers
BLP 1575City LightsLee Morgan1958Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
PRLP 7135Triple ExposureHal McKusick1958Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip