Blue Note session · in the studio
February 8, 1963
Jimmy Smith Quartet
In the room
Jimmy Smith – organ
Stanley Turrentine – tenor sax- Quentin Warren – guitar
- Donald Bailey – drums
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 | Stone Cold Dead In The Market | BLP 4164 |
| tk. 7 | Picnickin' | BLP 4164 |
| tk. 8 | Prayer Meetin' | 45 · 45-1909, BLP 4164 |
| tk. 10 | I Almost Lost My Mind | BLP 4164 |
| tk. 11 | When The Saints Go Marching In | BLP 4164 |
| tk. 13 | Red Top | 45 · 45-1910, BLP 4164 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
