Blue Note session · in the studio
November 26, 1962
Charlie Rouse Septet
In the room
- Charlie Rouse – tenor sax
Kenny Burrell – guitar- Chauncey Lord Westbrook – guitar
- Garvin Masseaux – chekere
- Larry Gales – bass · as Lawrence Gales
Willie Bobo – drums- 'Potato' Valdez – conga · as Potato Valdez
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. 4 | Back Down To The Tropics (as Back To The Tropics) | 45 · 45-1881, BLP 4119 |
| tk. 11 | Meci Bon Dieu | BLP 4119 |
| tk. 16 | Samba De Orfeu | BLP 4119 |
| tk. 25 | Velhos Tempos | 45 · 45-1881, BLP 4119 |
| tk. 31 | Un Dia | BLP 4119 |
| tk. 32 | In Martinique | 45 · 45-1882, BLP 4119 |
| tk. 38 | Aconteceu | 45 · 45-1882, BLP 4119 |
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 4114 | Bossa Nova Soul Samba | Ike Quebec | 1962 | Kenny Burrell, Garvin Masseaux, Willie Bobo |
2 of them 7 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NJLP 8211 | Just Wailin' | Herbie Mann, Charlie Rouse, Kenny Burrell, Mal Waldron | 1959 | Charlie Rouse, Kenny Burrell | |
| BLP 4111 | The Latin Bit | Grant Green | 1963 | Garvin Masseaux, Willie Bobo | |
| CL 2291 | Monk. | Thelonious Monk | 1965 | Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales | |
| CL 2416 | Misterioso (Recorded On Tour) | Monk | 1965 | Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales | |
| V-8614 | Soul Sauce | Cal Tjader | 1965 | Kenny Burrell, Willie Bobo | |
| CL 2651 | Straight, No Chaser | Monk | 1967 | Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales | |
| CS 9632 | Underground · not on the site yet | Thelonious Monk | 1968 | Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales |
