Blue Note session · in the studio
April 28, 1958
Bennie Green Sextet
In the room
- Bennie Green – trombone, vocal
- Gene Ammons – tenor sax
- Billy Root – tenor sax
- Babs Gonzales – vocal
- Sonny Clark – piano
- Ike Isaacs – bass
- Elvin Jones – drums
The takes
1 of these 7 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 | Lullaby Of The Doomed | 45 · 45-1709, BLP 1599 |
| tk. 5 | We Wanna Cook | 45 · 45-1709, BLP 1599 |
| tk. 9 | That's All | 45 · 45-1708, BLP 1599 |
| tk. 12 | Soul Stirrin' (stereo take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BST 81599 |
| tk. 12/13 | Soul Stirrin' (mono take) | 45 · 45-1708, BLP 1599 |
| tk. 15 | B.G. Mambo | BLP 1599 |
| tk. 19 | Black Pearl | BLP 1599 |
