Blue Note session · recorded live
April 9, 1965
Freddie Hubbard Septet
In the room
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Lee Morgan – trumpet
James Spaulding – alto sax- Harold Mabern – piano
- Larry Ridley – bass
- Pete La Roca – drums
Big Black – conga
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.
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
The whole band 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4207 | The Night Of The Cookers Volume 1 | Freddie Hubbard | 1965 | Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley, Pete La Roca, Big Black |
6 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4196 | Blue Spirits | Freddie Hubbard | 1967 | Freddie Hubbard, James Spaulding, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley, Pete La Roca, Big Black |
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4209 | Dippin' | Hank Mobley | 1966 | Lee Morgan, Harold Mabern, Larry Ridley |
