Blue Note session · in the studio
August 5, 1964
Jackie McLean Quintet
In the room
Jackie McLean – alto sax
Charles Tolliver – trumpet
Herbie Hancock – piano
Cecil McBee – bass
Roy Haynes – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1402 · tk. 5 | Truth | BLP 4179 |
| 1403 · tk. 17 | 'Snuff | BLP 4179 |
| 1404 · tk. 18 | Das Dat | BLP 4179 |
| 1405 · tk. 24 | Revillot | BLP 4179 |
| 1406 · tk. 31 | Cancellation | BLP 4179 |
| 1407 · tk. 33 | It's Time | BLP 4179 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4218 | Action | Jackie McLean | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Charles Tolliver, Cecil McBee |
2 of them 5 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4165 | Destination... Out! | Jackie McLean | 1964 | Jackie McLean, Roy Haynes | |
| BLP 4177 | Some Other Stuff | Grachan Moncur III | 1965 | Herbie Hancock, Cecil McBee | |
| A-90 | The New Wave In Jazz | Various Artists | 1966 | Charles Tolliver, Cecil McBee | |
| LP 1488 | Virgo Vibes | Roy Ayers | 1967 | Charles Tolliver, Herbie Hancock | |
| BLP 4222 | Cornbread | Lee Morgan | 1967 | Jackie McLean, Herbie Hancock |
