Blue Note session · in the studio
November 13, 1961
Sonny Clark Quartet
In the room
- Sonny Clark – piano
- Ike Quebec – tenor sax
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. 24 | Deep In A Dream | BLP 4091 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4089 | A Fickle Sonance | Jackie McLean | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| 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 6 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4432 | Grant Green Quartet + Ike Quebec · not on the site yet | Grant Green Quartet + Ike Quebec | 1961 | Sonny Clark, Ike Quebec | |
| BLP 4101 | Royal Flush | Donald Byrd | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4109 | Takin' Off | Herbie Hancock | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4098 | Blue & Sentimental | Ike Quebec | 1963 | Sonny Clark, Ike Quebec | |
| BLP 4132 | Feelin' The Spirit | Grant Green | 1963 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4118 | Free Form | Donald Byrd | 1966 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins |
