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Blue Note session · in the studio

October 1, 1965

The Horace Silver Quintet

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
1661 · tk. 4Pretty Eyes45 · 45-1923, BLP 4220
1662 · tk. 6The African Queen45 · 45-1924, BLP 4220
1663 · tk. 16The Cape Verdean Blues45 · 45-1923, BLP 4220
3 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 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4185Song For My FatherHorace Silver1964Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Roger Humphries
BLP 4250The Jody GrindHorace Silver Quintet/Sextet1967Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Roger Humphries

2 of them 8 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4144Little Johnny CJohnny Coles1964Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw
BLP 4157The SidewinderLee Morgan1964Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw
BLP 4154Idle MomentsGrant Green1965Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw
LP 1460Sayin' Somethin'Nat Adderley1966Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw
BLP 4189Inner UrgeJoe Henderson1966Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw
BLP 4191Wahoo!Duke Pearson1966+Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw
BLP 4221UnityLarry Young1966Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson
BLP 4243Delightfulee MorganLee Morgan1967Joe Henderson, Bob Cranshaw