Blue Note session · in the studio
January 21, 1963
Freddie Roach Trio
In the room
- Freddie Roach – organ
Kenny Burrell – guitar- Clarence Johnston – drums
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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 1 | Blues In The Front Room | 45 · 45-1891, BLP 4128 |
| tk. 8 | I Know | 45 · 45-1890, BLP 4128 |
| tk. 11 | Is You Or Is You Ain't My Baby | BLP 4128 |
| tk. 21 | Party Time | 45 · 45-1892, BLP 4128 |
| tk. 23 | Baby Don't You Cry | BLP 4128 |
| – | Bird Call | Rejected at the session |
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 4113 | Down To Earth | Freddie Roach | 1962 | Freddie Roach, Kenny Burrell, Clarence Johnston |
2 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4158 | Good Move | Freddie Roach | 1964 | Freddie Roach, Clarence Johnston |
 | BLP 4168 | Brown Sugar | Freddie Roach | 1964 | Freddie Roach, Clarence Johnston |
 | BLP 4190 | All That's Good | Freddie Roach | 1965 | Freddie Roach, Clarence Johnston |