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Blue Note session · in the studio

March 24, 1967

Jackie McLean Quintet

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
1864 · tk. 6Old GospelBLP 4262
1865 · tk. 9Strange As It SeemsBLP 4262
1866 · tk. 10Lifetime: Offspring / Midway / Vernzone / The Inevitable EndBLP 4262
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 4345Jackie McLean Quintet · not on the site yetJackie McLean Quintet1967Jackie McLean, Lamont Johnson, Scott Holt
BLP 4284'Bout SoulJackie McLean1968Jackie McLean, Lamont Johnson, Scott Holt

2 of them 12 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
C3551Something Else!!!!The Music Of Ornette Coleman1958Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins
LP 1317The Shape Of Jazz To ComeOrnette Coleman1959Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins
LP 1327Change Of The CenturyOrnette Coleman1960Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins
LP 1364Free JazzThe Ornette Coleman Double Quartet1961Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins
BLP 4089A Fickle SonanceJackie McLean1962Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4106Let Freedom RingJackie McLean1963Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4312Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Sextet1966Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4218ActionJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4222CornbreadLee Morgan1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4270Easterly WindsJack Wilson1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4335Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Sextet1967Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins
BLP 4273Hi VoltageHank Mobley1968Jackie McLean, Billy Higgins