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Blue Note session · in the studio

September 19, 1966

Don Cherry Septet

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
1786 · tk. 2Symphony For Improvisers: Symphony For ImprovisersBLP 4247
–Symphony For Improvisers: Nu Creative LoveBLP 4247
–Symphony For Improvisers: What's Not SeriousBLP 4247
–Symphony For Improvisers: Infant HappinessBLP 4247
1787 · tk. 5Manhattan Cry: Manhattan CryBLP 4247
–Manhattan Cry: LunaticBLP 4247
–Manhattan Cry: Sparkle PlentyBLP 4247
–Manhattan Cry: Om NuBLP 4247
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.

4 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4226Complete CommunionDon Cherry1966Don Cherry, Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell
BLP 4311Don Cherry Quartet · not on the site yetDon Cherry Quartet1966Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell

2 of them 5 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
A-9138TauhidPharoah Sanders1967Pharoah Sanders, Henry Grimes