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Blue Note session · in the studio

May 12, 1967

Donald Byrd 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
1884 · tk. 3Book's BossaBLP 4292
1885 · tk. 15The LonerBLP 4292
1886 · tk. 18Jelly RollBLP 4292
1887 · tk. 22Slow DragBLP 4292
1889 · tk. 29My IdealBLP 4292
1890 · tk. 30Secret LoveBLP 4292
6 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.

The whole band 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4259BlackjackDonald Byrd1967Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Cedar Walton, Walter Booker, Billy Higgins

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4238Mustang!Donald Byrd1967Donald Byrd, Sonny Red, Walter Booker
BLP 4425Hank Mobley Quintet · not on the site yetHank Mobley Quintet1967Donald Byrd, Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins

2 of them 13 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
JLP 59The ModeSonny Red1962Sonny Red, Cedar Walton
BLP 4101Royal FlushDonald Byrd1962Donald Byrd, Billy Higgins
LP 1448The In SoundEddie Harris1965Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
LP 1453Mean GreensEddie Harris1966Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
BLP 4118Free FormDonald Byrd1966Donald Byrd, Billy Higgins
BLP 4312Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Sextet1966Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
BLP 4426Lee Morgan Quintet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Quintet1966Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
LP 1478The Tender StormEddie Harris1967Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
CL 2649The Time And The PlaceArt Farmer Quintet1967Cedar Walton, Walter Booker
CL 2746Plays The Great Jazz HitsArt Farmer Quintet1967Cedar Walton, Walter Booker
BLP 4335Lee Morgan Sextet · not on the site yetLee Morgan Sextet1967Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
PR 7519Cedar!The Cedar Walton Trio, Quartet & Quintet1967Cedar Walton, Billy Higgins
LM-82045Born FreeMilt Jackson1967Cedar Walton, Walter Booker