Blue Note session · in the studio
May 21, 1965
Sam Rivers Quintet
In the room
Sam Rivers – tenor, soprano sax, flute
Freddie Hubbard – trumpet
Herbie Hancock – piano
Ron Carter – bass- Joe Chambers – drums
The takes
1 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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| 1582 · tk. 6 | Point Of Many Returns | BLP 4206 |
| 1583 · tk. 10 | Dance Of The Tripedal | BLP 4206 |
| 1584 · tk. 12 | Mellifluous Cacophony (mistitled as Mellifluous Cacaphony) | BLP 4206 |
| 1585 · tk. 18 | Euterpe | BLP 4206 |
| tk. 25 | Mellifluous Cacophony (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Mosaic MR5-167 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4213 | Components | Bobby Hutcherson | 1966 | Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers |
 | BLP 4219 | The All Seeing Eye | Wayne Shorter | 1966 | Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers |
3 of them 5 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4175 | Empyrean Isles | Herbie Hancock | 1964 | Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter |
 | BLP 4194 | Speak No Evil | Wayne Shorter | 1966+ | Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter |
 | BLP 4195 | Maiden Voyage | Herbie Hancock | 1965 | Freddie Hubbard, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter |
 | BLP 4198 | Dialogue | Bobby Hutcherson | 1965 | Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Chambers |
| BLP 4297 | Wayne Shorter Sextet · not on the site yet | Wayne Shorter Sextet | 1967 | Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Joe Chambers |
