Blue Note session · in the studio
February 15, 1964
Lee Morgan Sextet
In the room
Lee Morgan – trumpet
Wayne Shorter – tenor sax- Grant Green – guitar
Herbie Hancock – piano- Reginald Workman – bass · as Reggie Workman
Billy Higgins – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1304 · tk. 3 | Mr. Kenyatta | BLP 4169 |
| 1305 · tk. 5 | Search For The New Land | BLP 4169 |
| 1306 · tk. 10 | The Joker | BLP 4169 |
| 1307 · tk. 14 | Morgan The Pirate | BLP 4169 |
| 1308 · tk. 16 | Melancholee | BLP 4169 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4310 | Grant Green Quartet · not on the site yet | Grant Green Quartet | 1962 | Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Reginald Workman, Billy Higgins |
3 of them 8 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4132 | Feelin' The Spirit | Grant Green | 1963 | Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4173 | Night Dreamer | Wayne Shorter | 1964 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4118 | Free Form | Donald Byrd | 1966 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4193 | Indestructible | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1966 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4222 | Cornbread | Lee Morgan | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4232 | Adam's Apple | Wayne Shorter | 1967 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4243 | Delightfulee Morgan | Lee Morgan | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4212 | The Gigolo | Lee Morgan | 1968 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Billy Higgins |
2 of them 42 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4029 | The Big Beat | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1960 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| A-7 | Art Blakey And His Jazz Messengers (Alamode) | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers | 1961 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| RLP 360 | It's Time For Dave Pike | Dave Pike Quartet | 1961 | Reginald Workman, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4049 | A Night In Tunisia | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1961 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| BLP 4054 | Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Volume 1 | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1961 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| BLP 4347 | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers · not on the site yet | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers | 1961 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| RLP 438 | Caravan | Art Blakey Jazz Messengers | 1962 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4055 | Meet You At The Jazz Corner Of The World Volume 2 | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1962 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| BLP 4101 | Royal Flush | Donald Byrd | 1962 | Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4107 | Preach Brother! | Don Wilkerson | 1962 | Grant Green, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4109 | Takin' Off | Herbie Hancock | 1962 | Herbie Hancock, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4135 | Freddie Hubbard Quintet · not on the site yet | Freddie Hubbard Quintet | 1962 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| RLP 464 | Ugetsu | Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers At Birdland | 1963 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4115 | Hub-Tones | Freddie Hubbard | 1963 | Herbie Hancock, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4126 | My Point Of View | Herbie Hancock | 1963 | Grant Green, Herbie Hancock | |
| A-38 | The Body & The Soul | Freddie Hubbard | 1964 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4156 | The Freedom Rider | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1964 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| BLP 4157 | The Sidewinder | Lee Morgan | 1964 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| CL 2350 | E.S.P. | Miles Davis | 1965 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4170 | Free For All | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | 1965 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4177 | Some Other Stuff | Grachan Moncur III | 1965 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4182 | Juju | Wayne Shorter | 1965 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| BLP 4188 | I'm Tryin' To Get Home | Donald Byrd | 1965 | Grant Green, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4199 | The Rumproller | Lee Morgan | 1965 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4209 | Dippin' | Hank Mobley | 1966 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4216 | Spring | Anthony Williams | 1966 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4219 | The All Seeing Eye | Wayne Shorter | 1966 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4312 | Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Sextet | 1966 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4426 | Lee Morgan Quintet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Quintet | 1966 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4435 | Hank Mobley Quintet · not on the site yet | Hank Mobley Quintet | 1966 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| RLP 493 | Kyoto | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers | 1967 | Wayne Shorter, Reginald Workman | |
| LP 1488 | Virgo Vibes | Roy Ayers | 1967 | Herbie Hancock, Reginald Workman | |
| CL 2601 | Miles Smiles | Miles Davis Quintet | 1967 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| CL 2732 | Sorcerer | Miles Davis | 1967 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4194 | Speak No Evil | Wayne Shorter | 1966+ | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4230 | A Caddy For Daddy | Hank Mobley | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4245 | Like Someone In Love | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| BLP 4258 | The Witch Doctor | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter | |
| BLP 4270 | Easterly Winds | Jack Wilson | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4297 | Wayne Shorter Sextet · not on the site yet | Wayne Shorter Sextet | 1967 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4335 | Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Sextet | 1967 | Lee Morgan, Billy Higgins | |
| CS 9594 | Nefertiti | Miles Davis | 1968 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock |
