Blue Note session · in the studio
February 15, 1960
Freddie Redd Quartet
In the room
Freddie Redd – piano
Jackie McLean – alto sax- Mike Mattos – bass
- Larry Ritchie – 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. 2 | Time To Smile | BLP 4027 |
| tk. 4 | Jim Dunn's Dilemma | BLP 4027 |
| tk. 10 | Wigglin' | BLP 4027 |
| tk. 14 | Music Forever | BLP 4027 |
| tk. 16 | Theme For Sister Salvation | BLP 4027 |
| tk. 17 | Who Killed Cock Robin | BLP 4027 |
| tk. 21 | O.D. | BLP 4027 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
2 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4045 | Shades Of Redd | Freddie Redd Quintet | 1961 | Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean | |
| PR 7500 | Strange Blues | Jackie McLean | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Larry Ritchie |
