Blue Note session · in the studio
January 9, 1967
Donald Byrd Sextet
In the room
Donald Byrd – trumpet- Sonny Red – alto sax
- Hank Mobley – tenor sax
Cedar Walton – piano
Walter Booker – bass
Billy Higgins – drums
The takes
1 of these 7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1810 · tk. 5 | Loki | BLP 4259 |
| 1811 · tk. 9 | Eldorado | BLP 4259 |
| 1812 · tk. 10 | West Of The Pecos | BLP 4259 |
| – | Blackjack | Rejected at the session |
| 1814 · tk. 28 | Beale Street | BLP 4259 |
| 1813 · tk. 29 | Blackjack | BLP 4259 |
| 1815 · tk. 33 | Pentatonic | BLP 4259 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
5 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4292 | Slow Drag | Donald Byrd | 1968 | Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins |
4 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4238 | Mustang! | Donald Byrd | 1967 | Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Hank Mobley, Walter Booker | |
| BLP 4425 | Hank Mobley Quintet · not on the site yet | Hank Mobley Quintet | 1967 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins |
3 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4435 | Hank Mobley Quintet · not on the site yet | Hank Mobley Quintet | 1963 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4186 | The Turnaround! | Hank Mobley | 1965 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4312 | Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Sextet | 1966 | Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins | |
| BLP 4426 | Lee Morgan Quintet · not on the site yet | Lee Morgan Quintet | 1966 | Hank Mobley, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins |
