Blue Note session · in the studio
September 26, 1947
The Tadd Dameron Sextet Featuring Fats Navarro
In the room
- Fats Navarro – trumpet
- Ernie Henry – alto sax
- Charlie Rouse – tenor sax
- Tadd Dameron – piano
- Nelson Boyd – bass
- Shadow Wilson – drums
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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| BN304-0 | The Chase (alternate take) | BLP 1531 |
| BN304-2 | The Chase | 78 · 541, BLP 5004, BLP 1531 |
| BN305-0 | The Squirrel (alternate take) | BLP 1531 |
| BN305-1 | The Squirrel | 78 · 540, 78 · 1597, BLP 5004, BLP 1531 |
| BN306-0 | Our Delight (alternate take) | BLP 1531 |
| BN306-5 | Our Delight | 78 · 540, BLP 5004, BLP 1531 |
| BN307-0 | Dameronia (alternate take) | BLP 1531 |
| BN307-2 | Dameronia | 78 · 541, BLP 5004, BLP 1531 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5004 | Fats Navarro Memorial Album · not on the site yet | The Tadd Dameron Septet / The Tadd Dameron Sextet | 1952 | Fats Navarro, Ernie Henry, Tadd Dameron |
 | BLP 1532 | The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 2 | Fats Navarro | 1957 | Fats Navarro, Ernie Henry, Tadd Dameron |
2 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5006 | James Moody And His Modernists With Chano Pozo · not on the site yet | James Moody And His Bop Men | 1952 | Ernie Henry, Nelson Boyd |
 | BLP 5012 | The McGhee-Navarro Sextet · not on the site yet | Howard McGhee's All Stars | 1952 | Fats Navarro, Ernie Henry |
 | PRLP 7037 | Fontainebleau | Tadd Dameron | 1956 | Tadd Dameron, Shadow Wilson |