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Blue Note session · in the studio

April 29, 1966

Big John Patton 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
1730 · tk. 7Soul Woman BLP 4229
1731 · tk. 28Amanda 45 · 45-1926, BLP 4229
1732 · tk. 37The Shake BLP 4229
1733 · tk. 42Ain't That Peculiar 45 · 45-1926, BLP 4229
1734 · tk. 45The Yodel BLP 4229
All 5 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

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

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
PR 7474Laughing SoulGeorge Braith1966John Patton, Grant Green, Richard Landrum

2 of them 11 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4108The Natural SoulLou Donaldson1963John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4130Along Came JohnJohn Patton1963John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4125Good Gracious!Lou Donaldson1964John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4138Steppin' Out!Harold Vick1964John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4139Am I BlueGrant Green1964John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4161Soul StreamGeorge Braith1964Grant Green, Hugh Walker
BLP 4174The Way I Feel'Big' John Patton1964John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4145Shoutin'Don Wilkerson1965John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4192Oh Baby!Big John Patton1965John Patton, Grant Green
LP 1494The Grass Is GreenerGrassella Oliphant1967John Patton, Grant Green
BLP 4239Let 'Em RollBig John Patton1967John Patton, Grant Green