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Blue Note session · in the studio

April 3, 1965

Bobby Hutcherson Sextet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

1 of these 6 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
1556 · tk. 3CattaBLP 4198
1557 · tk. 11JasperNot issued at the time · later on Blue Note LT-996
1558 · tk. 18Idle WhileBLP 4198
1559 · tk. 24Ghetto LightsBLP 4198
1560 · tk. 29Les Noirs MarchentBLP 4198
1561 · tk. 30DialogueBLP 4198
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.

4 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4217Compulsion!!!!!Andrew Hill1967Freddie Hubbard, Andrew Hill, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers
BLP 4203Andrew!!!Andrew Hill1968Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Richard Davis, Joe Chambers

3 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4159Judgment!Andrew Hill1964Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Richard Davis
BLP 4163Out To Lunch!Eric Dolphy1964Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis
BLP 4213ComponentsBobby Hutcherson1966Bobby Hutcherson, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Chambers
BLP 4206ContoursSam Rivers1967Freddie Hubbard, Sam Rivers, Joe Chambers

2 of them 11 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
LP 1425EssenceJohn Lewis Plays The Compositions & Arrangements Of Gary McFarland1964Freddie Hubbard, Richard Davis
BLP 4151Black FireAndrew Hill1964Andrew Hill, Richard Davis
BLP 4160SmokestackAndrew Hill1966+Andrew Hill, Richard Davis
BLP 4172Breaking PointFreddie Hubbard1964Freddie Hubbard, Joe Chambers
BLP 4180Life TimeAnthony Williams1964Sam Rivers, Richard Davis
A-97On This NightArchie Shepp1965Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Chambers
BLP 4167Point Of DepartureAndrew Hill1965Andrew Hill, Richard Davis
A-94New Thing At NewportJohn Coltrane, Archie Shepp1966Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Chambers
BLP 4219The All Seeing EyeWayne Shorter1966Freddie Hubbard, Joe Chambers
BLP 4227Mode For JoeJoe Henderson1966Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Chambers
BLP 4231HappeningsBobby Hutcherson1967Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Chambers