Blue Note session · in the studio
February 3, 1966
Wayne Shorter Quartet
In the room
Wayne Shorter – tenor sax
Herbie Hancock – piano- Reginald Workman – bass
- Joe Chambers – drums
The takes
2 of these 3 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1699 · tk. 3 | Adam's Apple | BLP 4232 |
| – | Teru | Rejected at the session |
| – | 502 Blues (Drinkin' And Drivin') | Rejected at the session |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 4169 | Search For The New Land | Lee Morgan | 1966+ | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Reginald Workman |
 | BLP 4219 | The All Seeing Eye | Wayne Shorter | 1966 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Chambers |
| BLP 4297 | Wayne Shorter Sextet · not on the site yet | Wayne Shorter Sextet | 1967 | Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Joe Chambers |
