Blue Note session · in the studio
September 19, 1966
Don Cherry Septet
In the room
Don Cherry – cornet- Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri – tenor sax
Pharoah Sanders – tenor sax, piccolo- Karl Berger – vibes, piano
Henry Grimes – bass- Jenny Clark – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1786 · tk. 2 | Symphony For Improvisers: Symphony For Improvisers | BLP 4247 |
| – | Symphony For Improvisers: Nu Creative Love | BLP 4247 |
| – | Symphony For Improvisers: What's Not Serious | BLP 4247 |
| – | Symphony For Improvisers: Infant Happiness | BLP 4247 |
| 1787 · tk. 5 | Manhattan Cry: Manhattan Cry | BLP 4247 |
| – | Manhattan Cry: Lunatic | BLP 4247 |
| – | Manhattan Cry: Sparkle Plenty | BLP 4247 |
| – | Manhattan Cry: Om Nu | BLP 4247 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4226 | Complete Communion | Don Cherry | 1966 | Don Cherry, Leandro 'Gato' Barbieri, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell | |
| BLP 4311 | Don Cherry Quartet · not on the site yet | Don Cherry Quartet | 1966 | Don Cherry, Pharoah Sanders, Henry Grimes, Ed Blackwell |
2 of them 5 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 | |
| A-9138 | Tauhid | Pharoah Sanders | 1967 | Pharoah Sanders, Henry Grimes |
