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Blue Note session · in the studio

November 23, 1966

Horace Silver Sextet

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
1794 · tk. 25Mary LouBLP 4250
1795 · tk. 31Blues SilverBLP 4250
1796 · tk. 33Grease PieceBLP 4250
3 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.

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4220The Cape Verdean BluesThe Horace Silver Quintet Plus J.J. Johnson1965Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Roger Humphries
BLP 4274Natural EssenceTyrone Washington1968Woody Shaw, James Spaulding, Tyrone Washington

2 of them 4 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4185Song For My FatherHorace Silver1964Horace Silver, Roger Humphries
BLP 4207The Night Of The Cookers Volume 1Freddie Hubbard1965James Spaulding, Larry Ridley
BLP 4208The Night Of The Cookers Volume 2Freddie Hubbard1966James Spaulding, Larry Ridley
BLP 4196Blue SpiritsFreddie Hubbard1967James Spaulding, Larry Ridley