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Blue Note session · in the studio

April 30, 1963

Jackie McLean Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

1 of these 5 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. 3Frankenstein BLP 4137
tk. 5Saturday And Sunday BLP 4137
tk. 9Saturday And Sunday (alternate take) Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 46821 2
tk. 14Blue Rondo BLP 4137
tk. 16Ghost Town BLP 4137
All 5 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

4 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4153EvolutionGrachan Moncur III1964Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson, Tony Williams

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4165Destination... Out!Jackie McLean1964Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson

2 of them 7 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4126My Point Of ViewHerbie Hancock1963Grachan Moncur III, Tony Williams
BLP 4163Out To Lunch!Eric Dolphy1964Bobby Hutcherson, Tony Williams
BLP 4180Life TimeAnthony Williams1964Bobby Hutcherson, Tony Williams
BLP 4177Some Other StuffGrachan Moncur III1965Grachan Moncur III, Tony Williams
A-90The New Wave In JazzVarious Artists1966Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson
BLP 4218ActionJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson
BLP 4284'Bout SoulJackie McLean1968Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III