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Blue Note session · in the studio

September 20, 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. 4EsotericBLP 4165
tk. 7Love And HateBLP 4165
–Secret Love (incomplete)Rejected at the session
tk. 19Kahlil The ProphetBLP 4165
tk. 24Riff RaffBLP 4165
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 4137One Step BeyondJackie McLean1963Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson
BLP 4153EvolutionGrachan Moncur III1964Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson

2 of them 8 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
NJLP 8286Cracklin'Roy Haynes With Booker Ervin1963Larry Ridley, Roy Haynes
PJ-82PeopleRoy Haynes1964Larry Ridley, Roy Haynes
NJLP 8287CymbalismRoy Haynes1964Larry Ridley, Roy Haynes
BLP 4179It's Time!Jackie McLean1965Jackie McLean, Roy Haynes
A-90The New Wave In JazzVarious Artists1966Grachan Moncur III, Bobby Hutcherson
BLP 4218ActionJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson
BLP 4222CornbreadLee Morgan1967Jackie McLean, Larry Ridley
BLP 4284'Bout SoulJackie McLean1968Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III