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Blue Note session · in the studio

November 26, 1962

Charlie Rouse Septet

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. 4Back Down To The Tropics (as Back To The Tropics)45 · 45-1881, BLP 4119
tk. 11Meci Bon DieuBLP 4119
tk. 16Samba De OrfeuBLP 4119
tk. 25Velhos Tempos45 · 45-1881, BLP 4119
tk. 31Un DiaBLP 4119
tk. 32In Martinique45 · 45-1882, BLP 4119
tk. 38Aconteceu45 · 45-1882, BLP 4119
7 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.

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4114Bossa Nova Soul SambaIke Quebec1962Kenny Burrell, Garvin Masseaux, Willie Bobo

2 of them 7 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
NJLP 8211Just Wailin'Herbie Mann, Charlie Rouse, Kenny Burrell, Mal Waldron1959Charlie Rouse, Kenny Burrell
BLP 4111The Latin BitGrant Green1963Garvin Masseaux, Willie Bobo
CL 2291Monk.Thelonious Monk1965Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales
CL 2416Misterioso (Recorded On Tour)Monk1965Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales
V-8614Soul SauceCal Tjader1965Kenny Burrell, Willie Bobo
CL 2651Straight, No ChaserMonk1967Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales
CS 9632Underground · not on the site yetThelonious Monk1968Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales