Blue Note session · in the studio
March 19, 1962
Jackie McLean Quartet
In the room
Jackie McLean – alto sax- Walter Davis Jr. – piano
Herbie Lewis – 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. 6 | Melody For Melonae | BLP 4106 |
| tk. 8 | I'll Keep Loving You | BLP 4106 |
| tk. 12 | Rene | BLP 4106 |
| tk. 13 | Omega | BLP 4106 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
2 of them 12 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4013 | New Soil | Jackie McLean | 1959 | Jackie McLean, Walter Davis Jr. | |
| BLP 4018 | Davis Cup | Walter Davis Jr. | 1960 | Jackie McLean, Walter Davis Jr. | |
| BLP 4089 | A Fickle Sonance | Jackie McLean | 1962 | Jackie McLean, 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 | |
| PR 7518 | Nothin' But The Truth! | Teddy Edwards | 1967 | Walter Davis Jr., Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4244 | Stick-Up! | Bobby Hutcherson | 1968 | Herbie Lewis, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4273 | Hi Voltage | Hank Mobley | 1968 | Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins |
