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Blue Note session · in the studio

December 21, 1962

Grant Green Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

1 of these 6 takes stayed in the vault at the time: alternates and tunes that weren't issued. Switch to hear only the ones that came out on the records.

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. 2Go Down MosesBLP 4132
tk. 3Just A Closer Walk With TheeBLP 4132
tk. 5Joshua Fit The Battle Of JerichoBLP 4132
tk. 6Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless ChildBLP 4132
tk. 7Nobody Knows The Trouble I've SeenBLP 4132
tk. 8Deep RiverNot issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 46822 2
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.

3 of them 6 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4101Royal FlushDonald Byrd1962Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4107Preach Brother!Don Wilkerson1962Grant Green, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4109Takin' OffHerbie Hancock1962Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4310Grant Green Quartet · not on the site yetGrant Green Quartet1962Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins
BLP 4118Free FormDonald Byrd1966Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4169Search For The New LandLee Morgan1966+Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins

2 of them 13 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4089A Fickle SonanceJackie McLean1962Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4091Leapin' And Lopin'Sonny Clark1962Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4112Go!Dexter Gordon1962Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4111The Latin BitGrant Green1963Grant Green, Garvin Masseaux
BLP 4126My Point Of ViewHerbie Hancock1963Grant Green, Herbie Hancock
BLP 4127Una Mas (One More Time)Kenny Dorham1963Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren
BLP 4435Hank Mobley Quintet · not on the site yetHank Mobley Quintet1963Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren
BLP 4124A New PerspectiveDonald Byrd1964Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren
BLP 4133A Swingin' AffairDexter Gordon1964Butch Warren, Billy Higgins
BLP 4149No Room For SquaresHank Mobley1964Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren
BLP 4186The Turnaround!Hank Mobley1965Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren
BLP 4188I'm Tryin' To Get HomeDonald Byrd1965Grant Green, Herbie Hancock
BLP 4222CornbreadLee Morgan1967Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins