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Blue Note session · in the studio

December 29, 1967

Tyrone Washington Sextet

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
2015 · tk. 4EthosBLP 4274
2016 · tk. 7Soul DanceBLP 4274
2017 · tk. 11Yearning For LoveBLP 4274
2018 · tk. 14Positive PathBLP 4274
2019 · tk. 15Natural EssenceBLP 4274
2020 · tk. 18Song Of PeaceBLP 4274
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.

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4250The Jody GrindHorace Silver Quintet/Sextet1967Tyrone Washington, Woody Shaw, James Spaulding

2 of them 7 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4115Hub-TonesFreddie Hubbard1963James Spaulding, Reginald Workman
BLP 4172Breaking PointFreddie Hubbard1964James Spaulding, Joe Chambers
BLP 4213ComponentsBobby Hutcherson1966James Spaulding, Joe Chambers
BLP 4219The All Seeing EyeWayne Shorter1966James Spaulding, Joe Chambers
BLP 4232Adam's AppleWayne Shorter1967Reginald Workman, Joe Chambers
BLP 4297Wayne Shorter Sextet · not on the site yetWayne Shorter Sextet1967James Spaulding, Joe Chambers
BLP 4275Tender MomentsMcCoy Tyner1968James Spaulding, Joe Chambers