Blue Note session · recorded live
November 3, 1957
Sonny Rollins Trio
In the room
- Sonny Rollins – tenor sax
- Donald Bailey – bass
- Pete La Roca – drums
The takes
4 of these 5 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 | Woody 'N You | Rejected at the session |
| tk. 2 | A Night In Tunisia (afternoon take) | BLP 1581 |
| tk. 3 | I've Got You Under My Skin | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 4 | What Is This Thing Called Love | Rejected at the session |
| tk. 5 | Old Devil Moon | Rejected at the session |
