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Blue Note session · in the studio

August 29, 1962

Dexter Gordon 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. 3McSplivensBLP 4133
tk. 6The Back BoneBLP 4133
tk. 15Soy CalifaBLP 4133
tk. 21You Stepped Out Of A DreamBLP 4133
tk. 20Until The Real Thing Comes AlongBLP 4133
tk. 22Don't ExplainBLP 4133
6 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

The whole band 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4112Go!Dexter Gordon1962Dexter Gordon, Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins

3 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4089A Fickle SonanceJackie McLean1962Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4091Leapin' And Lopin'Sonny Clark1962Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4107Preach Brother!Don Wilkerson1962Sonny Clark, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4109Takin' OffHerbie Hancock1962Dexter Gordon, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins

2 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4101Royal FlushDonald Byrd1962Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4132Feelin' The SpiritGrant Green1963Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4118Free FormDonald Byrd1966Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4204Gettin' AroundDexter Gordon1966Dexter Gordon, Billy Higgins