Blue Note session · in the studio
October 26, 1961
Jackie McLean Quintet
In the room
Jackie McLean – alto sax- Tommy Turrentine – trumpet
- Sonny Clark – piano
Butch Warren – bass
Billy Higgins – drums
The takes
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. 1 | Enitrnerrut | BLP 4089 |
| tk. 8 | Five Will Get You Ten | BLP 4089 |
| tk. 9 | Subdued | BLP 4089 |
| tk. 11 | A Fickle Sonance | BLP 4089 |
| tk. 13 | Lost | BLP 4089 |
| tk. 18 | Sundu | BLP 4089 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4091 | Leapin' And Lopin' | Sonny Clark | 1962 | Tommy Turrentine, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins |
3 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4107 | Preach Brother! | Don Wilkerson | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4112 | Go! | Dexter Gordon | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4133 | A Swingin' Affair | Dexter Gordon | 1964 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins |
2 of them 14 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1588 | Cool Struttin' | Sonny Clark | 1958 | Jackie McLean, Sonny Clark | |
| BLP 4051 | Jackie's Bag | Jackie McLean | 1961 | Jackie McLean, Sonny Clark | |
| BLP 4101 | Royal Flush | Donald Byrd | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4109 | Takin' Off | Herbie Hancock | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4106 | Let Freedom Ring | Jackie McLean | 1963 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4132 | Feelin' The Spirit | Grant Green | 1963 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4118 | Free Form | Donald Byrd | 1966 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4312 | Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Sextet | 1966 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4218 | Action | Jackie McLean | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4222 | Cornbread | Lee Morgan | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4262 | New And Old Gospel | Jackie McLean | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4270 | Easterly Winds | Jack Wilson | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4335 | Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Sextet | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4273 | Hi Voltage | Hank Mobley | 1968 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins |
