Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

March 24, 1957

Lee Morgan Sextet

Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ

In the room

The takes

1 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 · takeTitleFirst out on
tk. 3Hasaan's DreamBLP 1557
tk. 5I Remember CliffordBLP 1557
tk. 7Mesabi ChantBLP 1557
tk. 10Tip-Toeing (alternate take)Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note CDP 7 46817 2
tk. 11Tip-ToeingBLP 1557
tk. 13DomingoBLP 1557
6 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 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1574Peckin' TimeHank Mobley & Lee Morgan1959Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip

3 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1540Hank Mobley with Donald Byrd and Lee MorganHank Mobley1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip
BLP 1541Lee Morgan Sextet (Vol. 2)Lee Morgan1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers, Charlie Persip
BLP 1559A Blowing SessionJohnny Griffin1957Lee Morgan, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers

2 of them 5 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1565Cliff JordanCliff Jordan1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
BLP 1577Blue TrainJohn Coltrane1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
BLP 1578The CookerLee Morgan1957Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
BLP 1575City LightsLee Morgan1958Lee Morgan, Paul Chambers
BLP 4003Moanin' · not on the site yetArt Blakey And The Jazz Messengers1958Lee Morgan, Benny Golson