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Blue Note session · in the studio

August 5, 1964

Jackie McLean Quintet

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
1402 · tk. 5Truth BLP 4179
1403 · tk. 17'Snuff BLP 4179
1404 · tk. 18Das Dat BLP 4179
1405 · tk. 24Revillot BLP 4179
1406 · tk. 31Cancellation BLP 4179
1407 · tk. 33It's Time BLP 4179
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 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4218ActionJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Charles Tolliver, Cecil McBee

2 of them 5 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4165Destination... Out!Jackie McLean1964Jackie McLean, Roy Haynes
BLP 4177Some Other StuffGrachan Moncur III1965Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee
A-90The New Wave In JazzVarious Artists1966Charles Tolliver, Cecil McBee
LP 1488Virgo VibesRoy Ayers1967Charles Tolliver, Herbie Hancock
BLP 4222CornbreadLee Morgan1967Jackie McLean, Herbie Hancock