Blue Note session · in the studio
February 4, 1962
The Three Sounds + Ike Quebec
In the room
- Ike Quebec – tenor sax
- Gene Harris – piano, organ
- Andrew Simpkins – bass
- Bill Dowdy – drums
The takes
15 of these 18 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. 2 | Sometimes I'm Happy | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 21281 2 0 |
| tk. 4 | Easy Does It | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 6 | Azule Serape | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 21289 2 2 |
| tk. 7 | Out Of This World | BLP 4197 |
| tk. 9 | Girl Of My Dreams | BLP 4197 |
| tk. 10 | Old Lamplighter | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 11 | Just In Time | BLP 4197 |
| tk. 14 | I Thought About You | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 18 | Blues On Trial | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note 7243 5 21484 2 4 |
| tk. 20 | Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 22 | Makin' Whoopee | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 21281 2 0 |
| tk. 23 | For Dancers Only | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 21289 2 2 |
| tk. 24 | Nature Boy | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 21289 2 2 |
| tk. 25 | Remember | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 26 | Wadin' | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 27 | Mountain Greenery | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 29 | What A Difference A Day Makes | Not issued at the time |
| tk. 30 | Tadd's Delight | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 21289 2 2 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 18 albums
2 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | JLP 16 | Organ-izing | Mel Rhyne | 1960 | Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins |
 | LM-82037 | Today's Sounds | The Three Sounds | 1966 | Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins |
 | BLP 4248 | Vibrations | The 3 Sounds | 1967 | Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins |
 | BLP 4265 | Live At The Lighthouse | The 3 Sounds | 1967 | Gene Harris, Andrew Simpkins |