Blue Note session · in the studio
December 24, 1965
Don Cherry Quartet
In the room
Don Cherry – cornet- Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri – tenor sax
Henry Grimes – bass- Ed Blackwell – drums · as Edward Blackwell
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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| 1675 · tk. 2 | Complete Communion: Complete Communion | BLP 4226 |
| – | Complete Communion: And Now | BLP 4226 |
| – | Complete Communion: Golden Heart | BLP 4226 |
| – | Complete Communion: Remembrance | BLP 4226 |
| 1674 · tk. 3 | Elephantasy: Elephantasy | BLP 4226 |
| – | Elephantasy: Our Feelings | BLP 4226 |
| – | Elephantasy: Bishmallah | BLP 4226 |
| – | Elephantasy: Wind, Sand And Stars | BLP 4226 |
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 4247 | Symphony For Improvisers | Don Cherry | 1967 | Don Cherry, Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell |
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4311 | Don Cherry Quartet · not on the site yet | Don Cherry Quartet | 1966 | Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell |
2 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LP 1353 | This Is Our Music | The Ornette Coleman Quartet | 1961 | Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell | |
| LP 1378 | Ornette! | The Ornette Coleman Quartet | 1962 | Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell | |
| A-97 | On This Night | Archie Shepp | 1965 | Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell | |
| LP 1451 | The Avant-Garde | John Coltrane & Don Cherry | 1967 | Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell |
