Blue Note session · recorded live
August 4, 1956
Jimmy Smith Trio
Club Baby Grand, Wilmington, DE
- This day's music is on 2 records: At Club Baby Grand Volume 1, At Club Baby Grand Volume 2
In the room
- Jimmy Smith – organ
- Thornel Schwartz – guitar
- Mitch Thomas – announcer
- Donald Bailey – drums
The takes
2 of these 6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| – | Introduction By Mitch Thomas | BLP 1528 |
| tk. 6 | It's All Right With Me | BLP 1529 |
| tk. 7 | I'll Remember April | Rejected at the session |
| tk. 8 | Joy Spring | Rejected at the session |
| tk. 9 | Caravan | BLP 1529 |
| tk. 10 | Love Is A Many Splendored Thing | 45 · 45-1666, BLP 1529 |
Where it ended up
BLP 1528 · 1956At Club Baby Grand Volume 1Jimmy Smith
BLP 1529 · 1957At Club Baby Grand Volume 2Jimmy SmithTogether elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 2 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 1514 | A New Sound, A New Star Volume 2 | Jimmy Smith | 1956 | Jimmy Smith, Thornel Schwartz, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1525 | At the Organ Volume 3 | Jimmy Smith | 1956 | Jimmy Smith, Thornel Schwartz, Donald Bailey |
2 of them 12 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 1512 | A New Sound, A New Star Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1956 | Jimmy Smith, Thornel Schwartz |
 | BLP 1547 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1551 | At the Organ Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1563 | Plays Pretty Just for You | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1552 | At the Organ Volume 2 | Jimmy Smith | 1958 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1585 | Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1958 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1586 | Groovin' at Smalls' Paradise Volume 2 | Jimmy Smith | 1958 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 4002 | House Party · not on the site yet | Jimmy Smith | 1958 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 4050 | Jimmy Smith Trio · not on the site yet | Jimmy Smith Trio | 1958 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 4200 | Jimmy Smith Trio · not on the site yet | Jimmy Smith Trio | 1958 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 1556 | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith | Jimmy Smith | 1959 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |
 | BLP 4011 | The Sermon! · not on the site yet | Jimmy Smith | 1959 | Jimmy Smith, Donald Bailey |