Blue Note session · in the studio
May 23, 1963
Dexter Gordon With The Three Bosses
In the room
Dexter Gordon – tenor sax- Francis Wolff – producer
Bud Powell – piano- Pierre Michelot – bass
Kenny Clarke – 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. 3 | Our Love Is Here To Stay | BLP 4430 |
| tk. 4 | Broadway | BLP 4146 |
| tk. 5 | Stairway To The Stars | BLP 4146 |
| tk. 1 | A Night In Tunisia | BLP 4146 |
| tk. 8 | Willow Weep For Me | BLP 4146 |
| tk. 3 | Scrapple From The Apple | BLP 4146 |
| tk. 2 | Like Someone In Love | BLP 4430 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CL 2292 | A Portrait Of Thelonious | Bud Powell | 1965 | Bud Powell, Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke |
2 of them 18 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR 7824 | Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra · not on the site yet | Coleman Hawkins And His Orchestra | 1949 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke | |
| PR 7605 | James Moody Quartet · not on the site yet | James Moody Quartet | 1950 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke | |
| PR 7817 | Zoot Sims Quartet · not on the site yet | Zoot Sims Quartet | 1950 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke | |
| ALR 118 | Sidney Bechet Solos | Sidney Bechet And His Feetwarmers | 1952 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 9005 | Fats Navarro | Fats Navarro / Gil Fuller's Modernists / The Be Bop Boys | 1952 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 9006 | Sonny Stitt | Sonny Stitt Quintet / The Be Bop Boys | 1952 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 9012 | New Sounds In Modern Music | Various Artists | 1952 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 9014 | New Trends Of Jazz Volume 1 | Sonny Stitt | 1952 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 9016 | New Trends Of Jazz Volume 3 | Dexter Gordon | 1952 | Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell | |
| MG 9023 | The Birth Of Bop Volume 2 | Various Artists | 1953 | Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell | |
| MG 9025 | The Birth Of Bop Volume 4 | Various Artists | 1953 | Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell | |
| MG 9034 | Bird - Diz - Bud - Max | Various Artists | 1954 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 12011 | Fats Bud-Klook-Sonny-Kinney | Sonny Stitt Quintet / The Be Bop Boys | 1955 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| PJ-1236 | Sidney Bechet Has Young Ideas | Sidney Bechet - Martial Solal Quartet | 1958 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke | |
| MG 12130 | Dexter Rides Again | Dexter Gordon | 1958 | Dexter Gordon, Bud Powell | |
| CL 1268 | Jazz Track | Miles Davis | 1959 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke | |
| MGV-8301 | The Lonely One... | Bud Powell | 1959 | Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke | |
| MGV-8378 | Lester Young In Paris | Lester Young Quintet | 1960 | Pierre Michelot, Kenny Clarke |
