Blue Note session · in the studio

January 6, 1966

Blue Mitchell Quintet

In the room

Blue Mitchell – trumpet
Junior Cook – tenor sax
Harold Mabern – piano
Gene Taylor – bass
Billy Higgins – drums

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
1678 · tk. 8	Port Rico Rock	BLP 4228
1679 · tk. 14	Portrait Of Jennie	BLP 4228
1681 · tk. 23	Gingerbread Boy	BLP 4228
1682 · tk. 24	Bring It Home To Me	BLP 4228
1680 · tk. 30	Blues 3 For 1	BLP 4228
1683 · tk. 31	Blue's Theme	BLP 4228

6 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Blue Mitchell – Bring It Home To Me (Blue Note BLP 4228)

BLP 4228 · 1967Bring It Home To MeBlue Mitchell

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

3 of them 14 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 4008	Finger Poppin'	Horace Silver	1959	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4017	Blowin' The Blues Away	Horace Silver	1959	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4325	Horace Silver Quintet · not on the site yet	Horace Silver Quintet	1959	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4042	Horace-Scope	Horace Silver	1960	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4076	Doin' The Thing	Horace Silver	1961	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
JLP 58	Junior's Cookin'	The Junior Cook Quintet Featuring Blue Mitchell	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
RLP 439	The Cup Bearers	Blue Mitchell	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4110	The Tokyo Blues	The Horace Silver Quintet	1962	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4131	Silver's Serenade	The Horace Silver Quintet	1963	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4185	Song For My Father	Horace Silver	1964	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4178	The Thing To Do	Blue Mitchell	1965	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4214	Down With It!	The Blue Mitchell Quintet	1966+	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4257	Boss Horn	Blue Mitchell	1967	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor
BLP 4272	Heads Up!	Blue Mitchell	1968	Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor

2 of them 4 albums

No.	Title	Leader	Year	Who
BLP 4209	Dippin'	Hank Mobley	1966	Harold Mabern, Billy Higgins
PR 7519	Cedar!	The Cedar Walton Trio, Quartet & Quintet	1967	Junior Cook, Billy Higgins
BLP 4212	The Gigolo	Lee Morgan	1968	Harold Mabern, Billy Higgins
BLP 4273	Hi Voltage	Hank Mobley	1968	Blue Mitchell, Billy Higgins