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Blue Note session · in the studio

April 26, 1962

Grant Green Sextet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

1 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. 2Mambo Inn BLP 4111
tk. 4My Little Suede Shoes BLP 4111
tk. 7Brazil BLP 4111
tk. 11Besame Mucho BLP 4111
tk. 14Blues For Juanita Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 37645 2 5
tk. 15Tico Tico BLP 4111
tk. 16Mama Inez BLP 4111
All 7 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4114Bossa Nova Soul SambaIke Quebec1962Garvin Masseaux, Wendell Marshall, Willie Bobo
BLP 4121Elder DonDon Wilkerson1963Grant Green, John Acea, Willie Bobo

2 of them 12 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1554Orgy in Rhythm Volume 1Art Blakey1957Wendell Marshall, Carlos Patato Valdes
BLP 1555Orgy in Rhythm Volume 2Art Blakey1957Wendell Marshall, Carlos Patato Valdes
LP 1383Richard Rodgers' No Strings: An After-Theatre VersionLaVern Baker, Chris Connor, Herbie Mann, Bobby Short1962Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
LP 1384Right NowHerbie Mann1962Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
LP 1413Live At NewportHerbie Mann1963Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
BLP 4119Bossa Nova BacchanalCharlie Rouse1963Garvin Masseaux, Willie Bobo
BLP 4132Feelin' The SpiritGrant Green1963Grant Green, Garvin Masseaux
LP 1433My Kinda GrooveHerbie Mann1965Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
CL 2388Latin Mann - Afro To Bossa To BluesHerbie Mann1965Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
LP 1464Our Mann FluteHerbie Mann1966Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
V-8648Uno Dos Tres 1-2-3Willie Bobo1966Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes
LP 1483The Beat Goes OnHerbie Mann1967Willie Bobo, Carlos Patato Valdes