Blue Note session · in the studio
August 3, 1964
Wayne Shorter Quartet
In the room
Wayne Shorter – tenor sax
McCoy Tyner – piano- Reginald Workman – bass · as Reggie Workman
Elvin Jones – drums
The takes
2 of these 8 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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| 1396 · tk. 10 | Yes Or No | BLP 4182 |
| 1397 · tk. 12 | Mahjong | BLP 4182 |
| 1398 · tk. 15 | House Of Jade | BLP 4182 |
| tk. 16 | House Of Jade (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 37644 2 6 |
| tk. 18 | Juju (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 37644 2 6 |
| 1399 · tk. 19 | Juju | BLP 4182 |
| 1400 · tk. 27 | Deluge | BLP 4182 |
| 1401 · tk. 29 | Twelve More Bars To Go | BLP 4182 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
The whole band 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4173 | Night Dreamer | Wayne Shorter | 1964 | Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Reginald Workman, Elvin Jones |
3 of them 6 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | A-6 | Africa/Brass | The John Coltrane Quartet | 1961 | McCoy Tyner, Reginald Workman, Elvin Jones |
 | LP 1373 | Ole Coltrane | John Coltrane | 1961 | McCoy Tyner, Reginald Workman, Elvin Jones |
| A-9273 | John Coltrane Orchestra · not on the site yet | John Coltrane Orchestra | 1961 | McCoy Tyner, Reginald Workman, Elvin Jones | |
 | A-10 | "Live" At The Village Vanguard | Coltrane | 1962 | McCoy Tyner, Reginald Workman, Elvin Jones |
 | BLP 4085 | Ready For Freddie | Freddie Hubbard | 1962 | Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones |
 | A-42 | Impressions | John Coltrane | 1963 | McCoy Tyner, Reginald Workman, Elvin Jones |
