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Blue Note session · in the studio

March 19, 1962

Jackie McLean Quartet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 6Melody For Melonae BLP 4106
tk. 8I'll Keep Loving You BLP 4106
tk. 12Rene BLP 4106
tk. 13Omega BLP 4106
All 4 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

2 of them 12 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4013New SoilJackie McLean1959Jackie McLean, Walter Davis Jr.
BLP 4018Davis CupWalter Davis Jr.1960Jackie McLean, Walter Davis Jr.
BLP 4089A Fickle SonanceJackie McLean1962Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4312Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Sextet1966Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4218ActionJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4222CornbreadLee Morgan1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4262New And Old GospelJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4270Easterly WindsJack Wilson1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4335Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Sextet1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
PR 7518Nothin' But The Truth!Teddy Edwards1967Walter Davis Jr., Billy Higgins
BLP 4244Stick-Up!Bobby Hutcherson1968Herbie Lewis, Billy Higgins
BLP 4273Hi VoltageHank Mobley1968Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins