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Blue Note session · in the studio

March 31, 1965

Grant Green Quartet

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
1550 · tk. 2Corcovado (aka Quiet Nights)45 · 45-1919, BLP 4202
1551 · tk. 4At Long Last LoveBLP 4202
1552 · tk. 10Speak LowBLP 4202
1553 · tk. 11This Could Be The Start Of Something BigBLP 4202
1554 · tk. 16I Want To Hold Your Hand45 · 45-1919, BLP 4202
1555 · tk. 21Stella By StarlightBLP 4202
6 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.

3 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4183Talkin' About!Grant Green1965Grant Green, Larry Young, Elvin Jones
BLP 4187Into Somethin'Larry Young1965Grant Green, Larry Young, Elvin Jones
BLP 4253Street Of DreamsGrant Green1967Grant Green, Larry Young, Elvin Jones

2 of them 7 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4431Hank Mobley Quintet · not on the site yetHank Mobley Quintet1961Grant Green, Hank Mobley
BLP 4080WorkoutHank Mobley1962Grant Green, Hank Mobley
BLP 4126My Point Of ViewHerbie Hancock1963Grant Green, Hank Mobley
LP 1428Together!Philly Joe Jones & Elvin Jones1964Hank Mobley, Elvin Jones
V-8627His Majesty King FunkGrant Green1965Grant Green, Larry Young
BLP 4221UnityLarry Young1966Larry Young, Elvin Jones
LP 1485Midnight WalkElvin Jones1967Hank Mobley, Elvin Jones