Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

January 13, 1957

Hank Mobley Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ

In the room

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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 2Reunion45 · 45-1671, BLP 1544
tk. 3Lower Stratosphere45 · 45-1671, BLP 1544
tk. 4Don't WalkBLP 1544
tk. 6UltramarineBLP 1544
tk. 7Mobley's MusingsBLP 1544
5 takes · the ones we haven't matched yet are looked up on Spotify when you make it

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

4 of them 8 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4325Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers · not on the site yetHorace Silver And The Jazz Messengers1954Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 5058Horace Silver Quintet (Volume 3) · not on the site yetHorace Silver And The Jazz Messengers1955Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 5062Horace Silver Quintet (Volume 4) · not on the site yetHorace Silver And The Jazz Messengers1955Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 5066Hank Mobley Quartet · not on the site yetHank Mobley Quartet1955Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 1507At the Cafe Bohemia Volume 1The Jazz Messengers1956Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 1508At the Cafe Bohemia Volume 2The Jazz Messengers1956Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 1518Horace Silver and the Jazz MessengersHorace Silver1956Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey
BLP 1550Hank Mobley QuintetHank Mobley1957Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey

3 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 5065Afro-Cuban · not on the site yetKenny Dorham1955Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 15396 Pieces of SilverHorace Silver1956Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins
BLP 1535Afro-CubanKenny Dorham1957Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey

2 of them 28 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 5009Genius Of Modern Music Vol. 2 · not on the site yetThelonious Monk1952Milt Jackson, Art Blakey
BLP 5011Wizard Of The Vibes · not on the site yetMilt Jackson1952Milt Jackson, Art Blakey
BLP 5018New Faces-New Sounds · not on the site yetHorace Silver1953Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5021New Faces-New Sounds · not on the site yetLou Donaldson1953Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5034Spotlight On Drums · not on the site yetHorace Silver Trio Vol. 2/Art Blakey-Sabu1954Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5037A Night At Birdland Vol. 1 · not on the site yetArt Blakey Quintet1954Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5038A Night At Birdland Vol. 2 · not on the site yetArt Blakey Quintet1954Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5039A Night At Birdland Vol. 3 · not on the site yetArt Blakey Quintet1954Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5040Miles Davis Vol. 3 · not on the site yetMiles Davis Quartet1954Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 5064Julius Watkins Sextet Vol. 2 · not on the site yetJulius Watkins Sextet1955Hank Mobley, Art Blakey
BLP 5070The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Vol. 3 · not on the site yetJay Jay Johnson Quintet1955Hank Mobley, Horace Silver
BLP 1502Miles Davis Volume 2Miles Davis1956Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1506The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2J.J. Johnson1956Hank Mobley, Horace Silver
BLP 1509Milt Jackson and the Thelonious Monk QuintetMilt Jackson1956Milt Jackson, Art Blakey
BLP 1511Genius of Modern Music Volume 2Thelonious Monk1956Milt Jackson, Art Blakey
BLP 1520Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-SabuHorace Silver1956Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1521A Night at Birdland Volume 1Art Blakey1956Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1522A Night at Birdland Volume 2Art Blakey1956Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1537Quartet/Quintet/SextetLou Donaldson1957Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1540Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee MorganHank Mobley1957Hank Mobley, Horace Silver
BLP 1541Lee Morgan Sextet (Vol. 2)Lee Morgan1957Hank Mobley, Horace Silver
BLP 1547A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 1Jimmy Smith1957Hank Mobley, Art Blakey
BLP 1548A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 2Jimmy Smith1957Hank Mobley, Art Blakey
BLP 1549Blowing in from ChicagoCliff Jordan & John Gilmore1957Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1558Sonny Rollins Volume 2Sonny Rollins1957Horace Silver, Art Blakey
BLP 1559A Blowing SessionJohnny Griffin1957Hank Mobley, Art Blakey
BLP 1562The Stylings of SilverHorace Silver1957Hank Mobley, Horace Silver
BLP 1556The Sounds of Jimmy SmithJimmy Smith1959Hank Mobley, Art Blakey