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Blue Note session · in the studio

December 24, 1965

Don Cherry 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
1675 · tk. 2Complete Communion: Complete CommunionBLP 4226
–Complete Communion: And NowBLP 4226
–Complete Communion: Golden HeartBLP 4226
–Complete Communion: RemembranceBLP 4226
1674 · tk. 3Elephantasy: ElephantasyBLP 4226
–Elephantasy: Our FeelingsBLP 4226
–Elephantasy: BishmallahBLP 4226
–Elephantasy: Wind, Sand And StarsBLP 4226
8 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.

The whole band 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4247Symphony For ImprovisersDon Cherry1967Don Cherry, Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4311Don Cherry Quartet · not on the site yetDon Cherry Quartet1966Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell

2 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
LP 1353This Is Our MusicThe Ornette Coleman Quartet1961Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell
LP 1378Ornette!The Ornette Coleman Quartet1962Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell
A-97On This NightArchie Shepp1965Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell
LP 1451The Avant-GardeJohn Coltrane & Don Cherry1967Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell