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Blue Note session · in the studio

February 15, 1960

Freddie Redd Quartet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 2Time To SmileBLP 4027
tk. 4Jim Dunn's DilemmaBLP 4027
tk. 10Wigglin'BLP 4027
tk. 14Music ForeverBLP 4027
tk. 16Theme For Sister SalvationBLP 4027
tk. 17Who Killed Cock RobinBLP 4027
tk. 21O.D.BLP 4027
7 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

2 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4045Shades Of ReddFreddie Redd Quintet1961Freddie Redd, Jackie McLean
PR 7500Strange BluesJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Larry Ritchie