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Blue Note session · in the studio

June 19, 1960

Freddie Hubbard Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 3Hub's Nub BLP 4040
tk. 5Gypsy Blue (alternate take)Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84040 2
tk. 6Gypsy Blue 45 · 45-1779, BLP 4040
tk. 8Open Sesame (alternate take)Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84040 2
tk. 9Open Sesame BLP 4040
tk. 11One Mint Julep 45 · 45-1779, BLP 4040
tk. 17But Beautiful BLP 4040
tk. 22All Or Nothing At All BLP 4040
8 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.

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4041True BlueTina Brooks1960Freddie Hubbard, Tina Brooks, Sam Jones
BLP 4196Blue SpiritsFreddie Hubbard1967Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner, Clifford Jarvis

2 of them 11 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1596Blue Lights Volume 1Kenny Burrell1958Tina Brooks, Sam Jones
JLP 25SpiritsvilleJulian Priester Sextet1960McCoy Tyner, Sam Jones
A-6Africa/BrassThe John Coltrane Quartet1961Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner
LP 1373Ole ColtraneJohn Coltrane1961Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner
BLP 1597Blue Lights Volume 2Kenny Burrell1961Tina Brooks, Sam Jones
BLP 4056Goin' UpFreddie Hubbard1961Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner
BLP 4059UndercurrentKenny Drew1961Freddie Hubbard, Sam Jones
A-9273John Coltrane Orchestra · not on the site yetJohn Coltrane Orchestra1961Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner
BLP 4085Ready For FreddieFreddie Hubbard1962Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner
BLP 4115Hub-TonesFreddie Hubbard1963Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Jarvis
A-95Ascension, Edition IJohn Coltrane1965Freddie Hubbard, McCoy Tyner