Blue Note session · in the studio
December 11, 1964
Sam Rivers Quartet
In the room
Sam Rivers – tenor sax
Jaki Byard – piano
Ron Carter – bass
Tony Williams – drums · as Anthony Williams
The takes
4 of these 10 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1487 · tk. 3 | Fuchsia Swing Song | BLP 4184 |
| 1488 · tk. 6 | Cyclic Episode | BLP 4184 |
| 1489 · tk. 10 | Luminous Monolith | BLP 4184 |
| tk. 12 | Luminous Monolith (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Mosaic MR5-167 |
| 1490 · tk. 15 | Ellipsis | BLP 4184 |
| tk. 17 | Downstairs Blues Upstairs (alternate take 1) | Not issued at the time · later on Mosaic MR5-167 |
| tk. 18 | Downstairs Blues Upstairs (alternate take 2) | Not issued at the time · later on Mosaic MR5-167 |
| tk. 19 | Downstairs Blues Upstairs (alternate take 3) | Not issued at the time · later on Mosaic MR5-167 |
| 1491 · tk. 20 | Downstairs Blues Upstairs | BLP 4184 |
| 1492 · tk. 23 | Beatrice | BLP 4184 |
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 4180 | Life Time | Anthony Williams | 1964 | Sam Rivers, Ron Carter, Tony Williams |
