Blue Note session · in the studio
February 5, 1962
Fred Jackson Quartet
In the room
- Fred Jackson – tenor sax
- Willie Jones – guitar
- Earl Van Dyke – organ
- Wilbert Hogan – 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. 4 | Dippin' In The Bag | 45 · 45-1842, BLP 4094 |
| tk. 11 | That's Where It's At | BLP 4094 |
| tk. 12 | Easin' On Down | 45 · 45-1843, BLP 4094 |
| tk. 13 | Southern Exposure | BLP 4094 |
| tk. 20 | Preach Brother | 45 · 45-1843, BLP 4094 |
| tk. 22 | Hootin' 'N Tootin' | 45 · 45-1842, BLP 4094 |
| tk. 24 | Way Down Home | BLP 4094 |
7 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it
