Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

February 12, 1957

Jimmy Smith Duo

Manhattan Towers, NYC

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. 1I'm Getting Sentimental Over You 45 · 45-1668, BLP 1548
tk. 2Summertime45 · 45-1667, BLP 1551
2 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.

The whole band 5 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1547A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 1Jimmy Smith1957Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson
BLP 1552At the Organ Volume 2Jimmy Smith1958Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson
BLP 4002House Party · not on the site yetJimmy Smith1958Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson
BLP 1556The Sounds of Jimmy SmithJimmy Smith1959Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson
BLP 4011The Sermon! · not on the site yetJimmy Smith1959Jimmy Smith, Lou Donaldson