Blue Note session · in the studio
July 30, 1964
Blue Mitchell Quintet
In the room
- Blue Mitchell – trumpet
- Junior Cook – tenor sax
Chick Corea – piano- Gene Taylor – bass
- Aloysius Foster – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1391 · tk. 5 | Fungii Mama | 45 · 45-1921, BLP 4178 |
| 1392 · tk. 14 | Step Lightly | BLP 4178 |
| 1393 · tk. 15 | The Thing To Do | BLP 4178 |
| 1394 · tk. 17 | Chick's Tune | BLP 4178 |
| 1395 · tk. 19 | Mona's Mood | BLP 4178 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4214 | Down With It! | The Blue Mitchell Quintet | 1966+ | Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Chick Corea, Gene Taylor |
 | BLP 4257 | Boss Horn | Blue Mitchell | 1967 | Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Chick Corea, Gene Taylor |
