Blue Note session · in the studio
August 29, 1962
Dexter Gordon Quartet
In the room
Dexter Gordon – tenor sax- 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 | McSplivens | BLP 4133 |
| tk. 6 | The Back Bone | BLP 4133 |
| tk. 15 | Soy Califa | BLP 4133 |
| tk. 21 | You Stepped Out Of A Dream | BLP 4133 |
| tk. 20 | Until The Real Thing Comes Along | BLP 4133 |
| tk. 22 | Don't Explain | BLP 4133 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
The whole band 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4112 | Go! | Dexter Gordon | 1962 | Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins |
3 of them 4 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 4107 | Preach Brother! | Don Wilkerson | 1962 | Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4109 | Takin' Off | Herbie Hancock | 1962 | Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins |
2 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4101 | Royal Flush | Donald Byrd | 1962 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4132 | Feelin' The Spirit | Grant Green | 1963 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4118 | Free Form | Donald Byrd | 1966 | Butch Warren, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4204 | Gettin' Around | Dexter Gordon | 1966 | Dexter Gordon, Billy Higgins |
