Blue Note session · in the studio
March 7, 1963
Hank Mobley Quintet
Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ
- This day's music is on 2 records: No Room For Squares, The Turnaround!
In the room
- Hank Mobley – tenor sax
Donald Byrd – trumpet
Herbie Hancock – piano
Butch Warren – bass
Philly Joe Jones – 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. 4 | Old World, New Imports | BLP 4149 |
| tk. 7 | Up A Step | BLP 4149 |
| tk. 17 | The Feelin's Good | BLP 4435 |
| tk. 21 | East Of The Village | BLP 4186 |
| tk. 26 | Yes Indeed | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 84435 2 |
| tk. 29 | The Good Life | BLP 4186 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4124 | A New Perspective | Donald Byrd | 1964 | Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren |
3 of them 5 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRLP 7043 | Informal Jazz | Elmo Hope Sextet | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Philly Joe Jones | |
| BLP 1560 | Hank | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Philly Joe Jones | |
| BLP 4101 | Royal Flush | Donald Byrd | 1962 | Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren | |
| BLP 4126 | My Point Of View | Herbie Hancock | 1963 | Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4118 | Free Form | Donald Byrd | 1966 | Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren |

