Blue Note session · in the studio
September 9, 1961
Leo Parker Sextet
In the room
Leo Parker – baritone sax- John Burks – trumpet
- Bill Swindell – tenor sax
- Yusef Salim – piano
- Stan Conover – bass
- Purnell Rice – drums
The takes
2 of these 9 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. 4 | Gland Lad | BLP 4087 |
| tk. 5 | Low Brown (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84087 2 |
| tk. 6 | Low Brown | 45 · 45-1823, BLP 4087 |
| tk. 9 | Parker's Pals | 45 · 45-1823, BLP 4087 |
| tk. 11 | TCTB | BLP 4087 |
| tk. 18 | The Lion Roar | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84087 2 |
| tk. 25 | Vi | BLP 4087 |
| tk. 28 | Let Me Tell You 'Bout It | 45 · 45-1822, BLP 4087 |
| tk. 31 | Blue Leo | 45 · 45-1822, BLP 4087 |
