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Blue Note session · in the studio

February 19, 1965

Freddie Hubbard Octet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

3 of these 5 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 · takeTitleFirst out on
1524Outer ForcesRejected at the session
1525 · tk. 24Soul Surge BLP 4196
1526 · tk. 26Cunga Black BLP 4196
–The Melting PotRejected at the session
–True ColorsRejected at the session
5 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

5 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4207The Night Of The Cookers Volume 1Freddie Hubbard1965Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley, Big Black
BLP 4208The Night Of The Cookers Volume 2Freddie Hubbard1966Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley, Big Black

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4115Hub-TonesFreddie Hubbard1963Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Clifford Jarvis
BLP 4252Sweet Honey BeeDuke Pearson1967Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Joe Henderson

2 of them 12 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
LP 1339Sister SalvationThe Slide Hampton Octet1960Freddie Hubbard, Kiane Zawadi
BLP 4040Open SesameFreddie Hubbard1960Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Jarvis
BLP 4073Hub CapFreddie Hubbard1961Freddie Hubbard, Larry Ridley
BLP 4172Breaking PointFreddie Hubbard1964Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding
LP 1467Drums UnlimitedMax Roach1966Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding
BLP 4191Wahoo!Duke Pearson1966+James Spaulding, Joe Henderson
BLP 4209Dippin'Hank Mobley1966Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley
BLP 4213ComponentsBobby Hutcherson1966Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding
BLP 4219The All Seeing EyeWayne Shorter1966Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding
LP 1477BacklashFreddie Hubbard1967Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding
BLP 4250The Jody GrindHorace Silver Quintet/Sextet1967James Spaulding, Larry Ridley
BLP 4267The Right TouchDuke Pearson1967Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding