Blue Note session · in the studio
August 9, 1949
Bud Powell's Modernists
- This day's music is on 4 records: The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 2, The Fabulous Fats Navarro Volume 1, The Amazing Bud Powell Volume 1, The Amazing Bud Powell Volume 2
In the room
- Bud Powell – piano
- Fats Navarro – trumpet
- Sonny Rollins – tenor sax
- Tommy Potter – bass
- Roy Haynes – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BN360-0 | Bouncing With Bud (alternate take 1) | BLP 1532, BLP 4430 |
| BN360-1 | Bouncing With Bud (alternate take 2) | BLP 1531, BLP 4430 |
| BN360-2 | Bouncing With Bud | 78 · 1567, BLP 5003, BLP 1503 |
| BN361-0 | Wail (alternate take) | BLP 1531, BLP 4430 |
| BN361-3 | Wail | 78 · 1567, BLP 5003, BLP 1503 |
| BN362-0 | Dance Of The Infidels (alternate take) | BLP 1532, BLP 4430 |
| BN362-1 | Dance Of The Infidels | 78 · 1568, BLP 1503 |
| BN363-1 | 52nd St. Theme | 78 · 1568, BLP 5004, BLP 1503 |
| BN364-0 | You Go To My Head | 78 · 1566, BLP 5003, BLP 1504 |
| BN365-0 | Ornithology | 78 · 1566, BLP 5003, BLP 1503 |
| BN365-1 | Ornithology (alternate master) | BLP 1504 |
11 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it
