Blue Note session · in the studio
November 10, 1956
Horace Silver Quintet
In the room
- Horace Silver – piano
- Donald Byrd – trumpet
- Hank Mobley – tenor sax
- Doug Watkins – bass
- Louis Hayes – 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 |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 3 | Enchantment | 45 · 45-1654, BLP 1539 |
| tk. 7 | Virgo | BLP 1539 |
| tk. 10 | Shirl | BLP 1539 |
| tk. 11 | Senor Blues (45 version) | 45 · 45-1655 |
| tk. 12 | Senor Blues | BLP 1539, BLP 4325 |
| tk. 14 | Camouflage | 45 · 45-1654, BLP 1539 |
| tk. 15 | Cool Eyes | 45 · 45-1655, BLP 1539 |
| tk. 18 | For Heaven's Sake | BLP 1539 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 14 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 4325 | Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers · not on the site yet | Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers | 1954 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 5058 | Horace Silver Quintet (Volume 3) · not on the site yet | Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers | 1955 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 5062 | Horace Silver Quintet (Volume 4) · not on the site yet | Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers | 1955 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 5066 | Hank Mobley Quartet · not on the site yet | Hank Mobley Quartet | 1955 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1507 | At the Cafe Bohemia Volume 1 | The Jazz Messengers | 1956 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1508 | At the Cafe Bohemia Volume 2 | The Jazz Messengers | 1956 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1518 | Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers | Horace Silver | 1956 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7048 | 4, 5 And 6 | Jackie McLean | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7061 | Mobleys Message | Hank Mobley Quintet, Quartet, Sextet | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1540 | Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Horace Silver, Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1544 | Hank Mobley and His All Stars | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1550 | Hank Mobley Quintet | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1562 | The Stylings of Silver | Horace Silver | 1957 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley, Louis Hayes | |
| PRLP 7073 | All Night Long | Donald Byrd, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Burrell, Hank Mobley, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor | 1957 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins |
2 of them 22 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 5065 | Afro-Cuban · not on the site yet | Kenny Dorham | 1955 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 5070 | The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Vol. 3 · not on the site yet | Jay Jay Johnson Quintet | 1955 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1506 | The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 | J.J. Johnson | 1956 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1534 | Whims of Chambers | Paul Chambers | 1956 | Horace Silver, Donald Byrd | |
| PRLP 7035 | Lights Out! | The Jackie McLean Quintet With Donald Byrd And Elmo Hope | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7043 | Informal Jazz | Elmo Hope Sextet | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley | |
| PRLP 7046 | Pairing Off | Phil Woods Septet | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7060 | Hi Fi Jam Session | Gene Ammons All Stars | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7062 | 2 Trumpets | Farmer/Byrd | 1956 | Donald Byrd, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1535 | Afro-Cuban | Kenny Dorham | 1957 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1541 | Lee Morgan Sextet (Vol. 2) | Lee Morgan | 1957 | Horace Silver, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1547 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1548 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 2 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1560 | Hank | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley | |
| BLP 1570 | Dial "S" for Sonny | Sonny Clark | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Louis Hayes | |
| PRLP 7081 | All Day Long | Frank Foster, Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor | 1957 | Donald Byrd, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7082 | Mobley's 2nd Message | Hank Mobley Quintet | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7107 | New Trombone | Curtis Fuller | 1957 | Doug Watkins, Louis Hayes | |
| PRLP 7119 | 2 Guitars | Kenny Burrell, Jimmy Raney With Byrd, McLean, Waldron, Watkins, Taylor | 1957 | Donald Byrd, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1589 | Further Explorations | Horace Silver | 1958 | Horace Silver, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1556 | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith | Jimmy Smith | 1959 | Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley | |
| PRLP 7188 | Lush Life | John Coltrane | 1961 | Donald Byrd, Louis Hayes |
