Blue Note session · in the studio
January 25, 1960
Donald Byrd Quintet
In the room
Donald Byrd – trumpet- Hank Mobley – tenor sax
- Duke Pearson – piano
- Doug Watkins – bass
Lex Humphries – 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. 14 | Child Play | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 52435 2 3 |
| tk. 17 | Ghana | 45 · 45-1799, BLP 4048 |
| tk. 18 | Lex | BLP 4048 |
| tk. 21 | Carol | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 52435 2 3 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4026 | Fuego | Donald Byrd | 1960 | Donald Byrd, Duke Pearson, Doug Watkins, Lex Humphries |
 | BLP 4124 | A New Perspective | Donald Byrd | 1964 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Duke Pearson, Lex Humphries |
