Blue Note session · in the studio

January 31, 1959

Horace Silver Quintet

In the room

Horace Silver – piano
Blue Mitchell – trumpet
Junior Cook – tenor sax
Gene Taylor – bass · as Eugene Taylor
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. 11	Cookin' At The Continental	45 · 45-1741, BLP 4008
tk. 24	Mellow D	45 · 45-1742, BLP 4008
tk. 29	You Happened My Way	BLP 4008
tk. 30	Swingin' The Samba	45 · 45-1742, BLP 4008
tk. 32	Finger Poppin'	45 · 45-1740, BLP 4008
tk. 34	Sweet Stuff	BLP 4008
tk. 37	Come On Home	45 · 45-1740, BLP 4008
tk. 39	Juicy Lucy	45 · 45-1741, BLP 4008

8 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Horace Silver – Finger Poppin' (Blue Note BLP 4008)

BLP 4008 · 1959Finger Poppin'Horace Silver

Together elsewhere

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

The whole band 2 albums

	No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
	BLP 4325	Horace Silver Quintet · not on the site yet	Horace Silver Quintet	1956	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes
	BLP 4017	Blowin' The Blues Away	Horace Silver	1959	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Louis Hayes

4 of them 5 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 4042	Horace-Scope	Horace Silver	1960	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4076	Doin' The Thing	Horace Silver	1961	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4110	The Tokyo Blues	The Horace Silver Quintet	1962	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4131	Silver's Serenade	The Horace Silver Quintet	1963	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4185	Song For My Father	Horace Silver	1964	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor

3 of them 7 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
JLP 58	Junior's Cookin'	The Junior Cook Quintet Featuring Blue Mitchell	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
RLP 439	The Cup Bearers	Blue Mitchell	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4178	The Thing To Do	Blue Mitchell	1965	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4214	Down With It!	The Blue Mitchell Quintet	1966+	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4228	Bring It Home To Me	Blue Mitchell	1967	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4257	Boss Horn	Blue Mitchell	1967	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4272	Heads Up!	Blue Mitchell	1968	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor

2 of them 7 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 5021	New Faces-New Sounds	Lou Donaldson	1953	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell
BLP 1539	6 Pieces of Silver	Horace Silver	1956	Horace Silver, Louis Hayes
BLP 1537	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet	Lou Donaldson	1957	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell
BLP 1562	The Stylings of Silver	Horace Silver	1957	Horace Silver, Louis Hayes
BLP 1589	Further Explorations	Horace Silver	1958	Horace Silver, Louis Hayes
RLP 324	The Soul Society	Sam Jones	1960	Blue Mitchell, Louis Hayes
RLP 358	The Chant	Sam Jones Plus 10	1961	Blue Mitchell, Louis Hayes