Blue Note session · in the studio
June 18, 1962
Don Wilkerson Sextet
In the room
- Don Wilkerson – tenor sax, tambourine
- Grant Green – guitar
- Jual Curtis – tambourine
- Sonny Clark – piano
Butch Warren – 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. 3 | Jeanie-Weenie | BLP 4107 |
| tk. 4 | Pigeon Peas | BLP 4107 |
| tk. 6 | The Eldorado Shuffle | BLP 4107 |
| tk. 8 | Homesick Blues | 45 · 45-1864, BLP 4107 |
| tk. 9 | Camp Meetin' | 45 · 45-1864, BLP 4107 |
| tk. 13 | Dem Tambourines | BLP 4107 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 5 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4089 | A Fickle Sonance | Jackie McLean | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4091 | Leapin' And Lopin' | Sonny Clark | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4112 | Go! | Dexter Gordon | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4132 | Feelin' The Spirit | Grant Green | 1963 | Grant Green, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4133 | A Swingin' Affair | Dexter Gordon | 1964 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins |
2 of them 10 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RLP 332 | The Texas Twister | Don Wilkerson | 1960 | Don Wilkerson, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4432 | Grant Green Quartet + Ike Quebec · not on the site yet | Grant Green Quartet + Ike Quebec | 1961 | Grant Green, Sonny Clark | |
| BLP 4101 | Royal Flush | Donald Byrd | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4109 | Takin' Off | Herbie Hancock | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4310 | Grant Green Quartet · not on the site yet | Grant Green Quartet | 1962 | Grant Green, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4098 | Blue & Sentimental | Ike Quebec | 1963 | Grant Green, Sonny Clark | |
| BLP 4121 | Elder Don | Don Wilkerson | 1963 | Don Wilkerson, Grant Green | |
| BLP 4145 | Shoutin' | Don Wilkerson | 1965 | Don Wilkerson, Grant Green | |
| BLP 4118 | Free Form | Donald Byrd | 1966 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4169 | Search For The New Land | Lee Morgan | 1966+ | Grant Green, Billy Higgins |
