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Blue Note session · in the studio

October 27, 1967

Lou Donaldson 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
1971 · tk. 2Ode To Billie JoeBLP 4271
1972 · tk. 10Peepin'45 · 45-1937, BLP 4271
1973 · tk. 16The KidBLP 4271
1974 · tk. 17The Shadow Of Your SmileBLP 4271
1975 · tk. 18The Humpback45 · 45-1937, BLP 4271
5 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 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4263Alligator BogalooLou Donaldson1967Lou Donaldson, Lonnie Smith, Leo Morris

2 of them 5 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 5021New Faces-New SoundsLou Donaldson1953Lou Donaldson, Blue Mitchell
BLP 1537Quartet/Quintet/SextetLou Donaldson1957Lou Donaldson, Blue Mitchell
BLP 4025The Time Is RightLou Donaldson1960Lou Donaldson, Blue Mitchell
LP-789Blowin' In The WindLou Donaldson1967Lou Donaldson, Leo Morris
CL 2696Finger-Lickin' Good Soul OrganLonnie Smith1967Blue Mitchell, Lonnie Smith