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Blue Note session · in the studio

May 19, 1965

Pete La Roca 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
1576 · tk. 8CanduBLP 4205
1577 · tk. 15MalaguenaBLP 4205
1578 · tk. 16BasraBLP 4205
1579 · tk. 18Lazy AfternoonBLP 4205
1580 · tk. 19EiderdownBLP 4205
1581 · tk. 20Tears Come From HeavenBLP 4205
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.

2 of them 6 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
RLP 440The Outer ViewGeorge Russell1962Pete La Roca, Steve Swallow
BLP 4140Page OneJoe Henderson1963Pete La Roca, Joe Henderson
MG 12182Footloose!Paul Bley1963Pete La Roca, Steve Swallow
BLP 4144Little Johnny CJohnny Coles1964Pete La Roca, Joe Henderson
BLP 4152Our ThingJoe Henderson1964Pete La Roca, Joe Henderson
LP 1442Sing Me Softly Of The BluesThe Art Farmer Quartet1965Steve Kuhn, Steve Swallow