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Blue Note session · in the studio

March 11, 1963

Freddie Roach Quartet

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. 7Googa Mooga 45 · 45-1890, BLP 4128
tk. 10Two Different Worlds BLP 4128
tk. 17Mo' Greens Please 45 · 45-1891, BLP 4128
tk. 27Nada Bossa 45 · 45-1892, BLP 4128
tk. 30Unchained Melody BLP 4128
All 5 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

3 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4158Good MoveFreddie Roach1964Freddie Roach, Eddie Wright, Clarence Johnston
BLP 4168Brown SugarFreddie Roach1964Freddie Roach, Eddie Wright, Clarence Johnston
BLP 4190All That's GoodFreddie Roach1965Freddie Roach, Conrad Lester, Clarence Johnston
PR 7521My People (Soul People)Freddie Roach1967Freddie Roach, Conrad Lester, Eddie Wright

2 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4113Down To EarthFreddie Roach1962Freddie Roach, Clarence Johnston