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Blue Note session · in the studio

August 30, 1963

Herbie Hancock Quartet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

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 · takeTitleFirst out on
12567 · tk. 1SuccotashBLP 4147
12568 · tk. 2TriangleBLP 4147
tk. 4Mimosa (alternate take)Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note B2BN 7243 4 95569 2 8
12565 · tk. 5MimosaBLP 4147
12566 · tk. 9A Jump AheadBLP 4147
12564 · tk. 13Jack RabbitBLP 4147
6 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

2 of them 5 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
CL 1893Jingle Bell JazzVarious Artists1962Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo
CL 1970The Giants Of JazzVarious Artists1963Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo
CL 2106Quiet NightsMiles Davis1963Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo
PRLP 7379Afro-Soul/Drum OrgyA.K. Salim1965Willie Bobo, Osvaldo Martinez
CL 2732SorcererMiles Davis1967Paul Chambers, Willie Bobo