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Blue Note session · in the studio

November 13, 1961

Sonny Clark Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

2 of these 7 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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 5Melody For C (alternate take)Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) TOCJ-5941/44
tk. 7Voodoo BLP 4091
tk. 11Zellmar's Delight Not issued at the time
tk. 12Somethin' Special BLP 4091
tk. 17Midnight Mambo BLP 4091
tk. 18Melody For C BLP 4091
tk. 21Eric Walks BLP 4091
7 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

4 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4089A Fickle SonanceJackie McLean1962Sonny Clark, Tommy Turrentine, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins

3 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4107Preach Brother!Don Wilkerson1962Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4112Go!Dexter Gordon1962Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4133A Swingin' AffairDexter Gordon1964Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins

2 of them 10 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1594SmithvilleLouis Smith1958Sonny Clark, Charlie Rouse
RLP 323Thelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two At The BlackhawkThelonious Monk Quartet Plus Two1960Charlie Rouse, Billy Higgins
BLP 4101Royal FlushDonald Byrd1962Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4109Takin' OffHerbie Hancock1962Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4132Feelin' The SpiritGrant Green1963Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
CL 2164Big Band And Quartet In ConcertThelonious Monk1964Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren
CL 2178Miles & Monk At NewportMiles Davis Sextet1964Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren
CL 2184It's Monk's TimeThelonious Monk1964Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren
CL 2416Misterioso (Recorded On Tour)Monk1965Charlie Rouse, Butch Warren
BLP 4118Free FormDonald Byrd1966Butch Warren, Billy Higgins