Blue Note session · in the studio
May 3, 1962
Don Wilkerson Quintet
In the room
- Don Wilkerson – tenor sax
- Grant Green – guitar
- John Acea – piano · as Johnny Acea
Lloyd Trotman – bass
Willie Bobo – drums
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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 5 | Drawin' A Tip | BLP 4121 |
| tk. 6 | Senorita Eula | BLP 4121 |
| tk. 9 | Poor Butterfly | BLP 4121 |
| tk. 13 | Scrappy | BLP 4121 |
| tk. 15 | San Antonio Rose | BLP 4121 |
| tk. 17 | Naughty Neenie | Rejected at the session |
| tk. 22 | Lone Star Shuffle | BLP 4121 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4111 | The Latin Bit | Grant Green | 1963 | Grant Green, John Acea, Willie Bobo |
2 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4107 | Preach Brother! | Don Wilkerson | 1962 | Don Wilkerson, Grant Green |
 | BLP 4145 | Shoutin' | Don Wilkerson | 1965 | Don Wilkerson, Grant Green |