Blue Note session · in the studio
June 19, 1960
Freddie Hubbard Quintet
In the room
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet- Tina Brooks – tenor sax
McCoy Tyner – piano- Sam Jones – bass
- Clifford Jarvis – drums
The takes
2 of these 8 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. 3 | Hub's Nub | BLP 4040 |
| tk. 5 | Gypsy Blue (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84040 2 |
| tk. 6 | Gypsy Blue | 45 · 45-1779, BLP 4040 |
| tk. 8 | Open Sesame (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84040 2 |
| tk. 9 | Open Sesame | BLP 4040 |
| tk. 11 | One Mint Julep | 45 · 45-1779, BLP 4040 |
| tk. 17 | But Beautiful | BLP 4040 |
| tk. 22 | All Or Nothing At All | BLP 4040 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4041 | True Blue | Tina Brooks | 1960 | Freddie Hubbard, Tina Brooks, Sam Jones | |
| BLP 4196 | Blue Spirits | Freddie Hubbard | 1967 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Clifford Jarvis |
2 of them 11 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1596 | Blue Lights Volume 1 | Kenny Burrell | 1958 | Tina Brooks, Sam Jones | |
| JLP 25 | Spiritsville | Julian Priester Sextet | 1960 | McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones | |
| A-6 | Africa/Brass | The John Coltrane Quartet | 1961 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner | |
| LP 1373 | Ole Coltrane | John Coltrane | 1961 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner | |
| BLP 1597 | Blue Lights Volume 2 | Kenny Burrell | 1961 | Tina Brooks, Sam Jones | |
| BLP 4056 | Goin' Up | Freddie Hubbard | 1961 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner | |
| BLP 4059 | Undercurrent | Kenny Drew | 1961 | Freddie Hubbard, Sam Jones | |
| A-9273 | John Coltrane Orchestra · not on the site yet | John Coltrane Orchestra | 1961 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner | |
| BLP 4085 | Ready For Freddie | Freddie Hubbard | 1962 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner | |
| BLP 4115 | Hub-Tones | Freddie Hubbard | 1963 | Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Jarvis | |
| A-95 | Ascension, Edition I | John Coltrane | 1965 | Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner |
