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Blue Note session · in the studio

September 8, 1967

Jackie McLean Sextet

Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ

In the room

The takes

1 of these 6 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 · takeTitleFirst out on
1934 · tk. 2Big Ben's Voice (alternate take)Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 59383 2 0
1934 · tk. 3Big Ben's VoiceBLP 4284
1935 · tk. 4Conversion PointBLP 4284
1936 · tk. 8SoulBLP 4284
1937 · tk. 14Dear Nick, Dear JohnBLP 4284
1938 · tk. 17ErduBLP 4284
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.

4 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4345Jackie McLean Quintet · not on the site yetJackie McLean Quintet1967Jackie McLean, Woody Shaw, Lamont Johnson, Scott Holt

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4262New And Old GospelJackie McLean1967Jackie McLean, Lamont Johnson, Scott Holt

2 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4137One Step BeyondJackie McLean1963Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III
BLP 4153EvolutionGrachan Moncur III1964Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III
BLP 4165Destination... Out!Jackie McLean1964Jackie McLean, Grachan Moncur III