Blue Note session · in the studio
June 25, 1960
Tina Brooks Quintet
In the room
- Tina Brooks – tenor sax
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet- Duke Jordan – piano
- Sam Jones – bass
Art Taylor – 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. 5 | Miss Hazel | BLP 4041 |
| tk. 7 | Good Old Soul | 45 · 45-1782, BLP 4041 |
| – | Good Old Soul (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 28975 2 1 |
| tk. 8 | Nothing Ever Changes My Love For You | BLP 4041 |
| tk. 14 | True Blue | BLP 4041 |
| – | True Blue (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 28975 2 1 |
| tk. 18 | Up Tight's Greek | BLP 4041 |
| tk. 22 | Theme For Doris | BLP 4041 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 1596 | Blue Lights Volume 1 | Kenny Burrell | 1958 | Tina Brooks, Duke Jordan, Sam Jones |
 | BLP 4040 | Open Sesame | Freddie Hubbard | 1960 | Tina Brooks, Freddie Hubbard, Sam Jones |
 | BLP 1597 | Blue Lights Volume 2 | Kenny Burrell | 1961 | Tina Brooks, Duke Jordan, Sam Jones |
