Blue Note session · in the studio
March 8, 1957
Hank Mobley Quintet
In the room
- Hank Mobley – tenor sax
- Art Farmer – trumpet
- Horace Silver – piano
- Doug Watkins – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
The takes
2 of these 8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 1 | Wham And They're Off | BLP 1550 |
| tk. 4 | Wham And They're Off (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (Du) 1A 158-83385/8 |
| tk. 5 | Funk In Deep Freeze (alternate take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 46816 2 |
| tk. 6 | Funk In Deep Freeze | 45 · 45-1675, BLP 1550 |
| tk. 7 | Startin' From Scratch | BLP 1550 |
| tk. 8 | Stella-Wise | 45 · 45-1684, BLP 1550 |
| tk. 9 | Base On Balls | 45 · 45-1684, BLP 1550 |
| tk. 10 | Fin De L'affaire (as End Of The Affair) | 45 · 45-1675, BLP 1550 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 8 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 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5058 | Horace Silver Quintet (Volume 3) · not on the site yet | Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5062 | Horace Silver Quintet (Volume 4) · not on the site yet | Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5066 | Hank Mobley Quartet · not on the site yet | Hank Mobley Quartet | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1507 | At the Cafe Bohemia Volume 1 | The Jazz Messengers | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1508 | At the Cafe Bohemia Volume 2 | The Jazz Messengers | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1518 | Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers | Horace Silver | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1544 | Hank Mobley and His All Stars | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins, Art Blakey |
3 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 5065 | Afro-Cuban · not on the site yet | Kenny Dorham | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1539 | 6 Pieces of Silver | Horace Silver | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1535 | Afro-Cuban | Kenny Dorham | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1562 | The Stylings of Silver | Horace Silver | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Art Farmer, Horace Silver |
2 of them 35 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 5018 | New Faces-New Sounds · not on the site yet | Horace Silver | 1953 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5021 | New Faces-New Sounds · not on the site yet | Lou Donaldson | 1953 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5034 | Spotlight On Drums · not on the site yet | Horace Silver Trio Vol. 2/Art Blakey-Sabu | 1954 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5037 | A Night At Birdland Vol. 1 · not on the site yet | Art Blakey Quintet | 1954 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5038 | A Night At Birdland Vol. 2 · not on the site yet | Art Blakey Quintet | 1954 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5039 | A Night At Birdland Vol. 3 · not on the site yet | Art Blakey Quintet | 1954 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5040 | Miles Davis Vol. 3 · not on the site yet | Miles Davis Quartet | 1954 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5064 | Julius Watkins Sextet Vol. 2 · not on the site yet | Julius Watkins Sextet | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 5070 | The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Vol. 3 · not on the site yet | Jay Jay Johnson Quintet | 1955 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver | |
| BLP 1502 | Miles Davis Volume 2 | Miles Davis | 1956 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1506 | The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 | J.J. Johnson | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver | |
| BLP 1520 | Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu | Horace Silver | 1956 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1521 | A Night at Birdland Volume 1 | Art Blakey | 1956 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1522 | A Night at Birdland Volume 2 | Art Blakey | 1956 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7031 | The Art Farmer Septet | The Art Farmer Septet | 1956 | Art Farmer, Horace Silver | |
| PRLP 7048 | 4, 5 And 6 | Jackie McLean | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7054 | Blue Haze | Miles Davis | 1956 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| PRLP 7060 | Hi Fi Jam Session | Gene Ammons All Stars | 1956 | Art Farmer, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7061 | Mobleys Message | Hank Mobley Quintet, Quartet, Sextet | 1956 | Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7062 | 2 Trumpets | Farmer/Byrd | 1956 | Art Farmer, Doug Watkins | |
| BLP 1537 | Quartet/Quintet/Sextet | Lou Donaldson | 1957 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1540 | Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee Morgan | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver | |
| BLP 1541 | Lee Morgan Sextet (Vol. 2) | Lee Morgan | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Horace Silver | |
| BLP 1547 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1548 | A Date with Jimmy Smith Volume 2 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1549 | Blowing in from Chicago | Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore | 1957 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1558 | Sonny Rollins Volume 2 | Sonny Rollins | 1957 | Horace Silver, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1559 | A Blowing Session | Johnny Griffin | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Art Blakey | |
| BLP 1570 | Dial "S" for Sonny | Sonny Clark | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Art Farmer | |
| PRLP 7073 | All Night Long | Donald Byrd, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Burrell, Hank Mobley, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins, Art Taylor | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7082 | Mobley's 2nd Message | Hank Mobley Quintet | 1957 | Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7083 | Funky: Hi-Fi Jam Session | Gene Ammons | 1957 | Art Farmer, Doug Watkins | |
| PRLP 7085 | When Farmer Met Gryce | The Art Farmer Quintet Featuring Gigi Gryce | 1957 | Art Farmer, Horace Silver | |
| BLP 1589 | Further Explorations | Horace Silver | 1958 | Art Farmer, Horace Silver | |
| BLP 1556 | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith | Jimmy Smith | 1959 | Hank Mobley, Art Blakey |
