Blue Note session · in the studio

May 20, 1961

The Horace Silver Quintet

In the room

Horace Silver – piano
Blue Mitchell – trumpet
Junior Cook – tenor sax
Gene Taylor – bass
Roy Brooks – drums

The takes

12 of these 14 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
–	Cool Eyes (alternate full version)	Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA945-H
tk. 16	It Ain't S'posed To Be Like That	Rejected at the session
tk. 17	The Gringo	BLP 4076
tk. 18	Filthy McNasty	Rejected at the session
tk. 19	It Ain't S'posed To Be Like That	Rejected at the session
tk. 20	Doin' The Thing	Rejected at the session
tk. 21	Kiss Me Right	BLP 4076
tk. 22	The Gringo	Rejected at the session
tk. 23	Filthy McNasty	Rejected at the session
tk. 24	Doin' The Thing	Rejected at the session
tk. 25	It Ain't S'posed To Be Like That	Rejected at the session
tk. 26	The Gringo	Rejected at the session
tk. 27	Filthy McNasty	Rejected at the session
–	Cool Eyes (theme)	Rejected at the session

14 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Horace Silver – Doin' The Thing (Blue Note BLP 4076)

BLP 4076 · 1961Doin' The ThingHorace Silver

Together elsewhere

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

The whole band 4 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 4325	Horace Silver Quintet · not on the site yet	Horace Silver Quintet	1959	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks
BLP 4042	Horace-Scope	Horace Silver	1960	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks
BLP 4131	Silver's Serenade	The Horace Silver Quintet	1963	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks
BLP 4185	Song For My Father	Horace Silver	1964	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks

4 of them 5 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 4008	Finger Poppin'	Horace Silver	1959	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4017	Blowin' The Blues Away	Horace Silver	1959	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
JLP 58	Junior's Cookin'	The Junior Cook Quintet Featuring Blue Mitchell	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks
RLP 439	The Cup Bearers	Blue Mitchell	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor, Roy Brooks
BLP 4110	The Tokyo Blues	The Horace Silver Quintet	1962	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor

3 of them 5 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 4178	The Thing To Do	Blue Mitchell	1965	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4214	Down With It!	The Blue Mitchell Quintet	1966+	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4228	Bring It Home To Me	Blue Mitchell	1967	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4257	Boss Horn	Blue Mitchell	1967	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4272	Heads Up!	Blue Mitchell	1968	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor

2 of them 3 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 5021	New Faces-New Sounds	Lou Donaldson	1953	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell
BLP 1537	Quartet/Quintet/Sextet	Lou Donaldson	1957	Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell
RLP 336	Blue's Moods	Blue Mitchell	1960	Blue Mitchell, Roy Brooks