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Blue Note session · in the studio

December 16, 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. 10The Man I Love BLP 4161
tk. 15Boop Bop Bing Bash BLP 4161
tk. 19Billy Told BLP 4161
tk. 23Outside Around The Corner BLP 4161
tk. 26Soul Stream BLP 4161
tk. 39Jo Anne BLP 4161
All 6 takes found on Spotify

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 4148Two Souls In OneGeorge Braith1963George 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
BLP 4229Got A Good Thing Goin'Big John Patton1966Grant Green, Hugh Walker
PR 7474Laughing SoulGeorge Braith1966George Braith, Grant Green