Blue Note session · in the studio
October 11, 1948
The McGhee-Navarro Boptet
- This day's music is on 2 records: The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 2, The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 1
In the room
- Howard McGhee – trumpet
- Fats Navarro – trumpet
- Ernie Henry – alto sax
- Milton Jackson – vibes, piano
- Curley Russell – bass
- Kenny Clarke – drums
The takes
6 of these 11 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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| BN336-0 | The Skunk | Rejected at the session |
| BN336-1 | The Skunk (alternate take) | BLP 1532 |
| BN337 | Boperation | Rejected at the session |
| BN337-0 | - | Rejected at the session |
| BN337-1 | - | 78 · 558, BLP 5012, BLP 1532 |
| BN337-2 | Boperation (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7243 8 33373 2 3 |
| BN336-2 | The Skunk | Rejected at the session |
| BN336-3 | - | 78 · 558, BLP 5012 |
| BN338-0 | Double Talk | 78 · 557, BLP 5004, BLP 1531 |
| BN339-0 | Double Talk (alternate take) | BLP 1532 |
| BN336-4 | The Skunk | Rejected at the session |
Where it ended up
BLP 1532 · 1957The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 2Fats Navarro
BLP 1531 · 1957The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 1Fats NavarroTogether elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5004 | Fats Navarro Memorial Album · not on the site yet | The Tadd Dameron Sextet Featuring Fats Navarro | 1952 | Fats Navarro, Ernie Henry, Curley Russell, Kenny Clarke |
2 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5012 | The McGhee-Navarro Sextet · not on the site yet | Howard McGhee's All Stars | 1952 | Howard McGhee, Curley Russell |