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Blue Note session · in the studio

September 4, 1963

George Braith 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. 8Mary Had A Little LambBLP 4148
tk. 17PoincianaBLP 4148
tk. 26Mary AnnBLP 4148
tk. 27Home StreetBLP 4148
tk. 33Braith-A-WayBLP 4148
5 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.

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4161Soul StreamGeorge Braith1964George Braith, Grant Green, Billy Gardner
BLP 4171ExtensionGeorge Braith1967George Braith, Grant Green, Billy Gardner

2 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
LP-759Musty RustyLou Donaldson1965Grant Green, Billy Gardner
PR 7474Laughing SoulGeorge Braith1966George Braith, Grant Green
BLP 4255I'm Movin' OnThe Incredible Jimmy Smith1967Grant Green, Donald Bailey