Blue Note session · recorded live
November 3, 1957
Sonny Rollins Trio
In the room
- Sonny Rollins – tenor sax
- Wilbur Ware – bass
- Elvin Jones – drums
The takes
10 of these 15 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. 6 | A Night In Tunisia (evening take) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 7 | Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (take 2) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 8 | Four | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 9 | Woody 'N You | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 10 | Old Devil Moon | BLP 1581 |
| tk. 11 | What Is This Thing Called Love | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 12 | Softly As In A Morning Sunrise | BLP 1581 |
| tk. 13 | Sonnymoon For Two | 45 · 45-1698, BLP 1581 |
| tk. 14 | I Can't Get Started | BLP 1581 |
| tk. 15 | I'll Remember April | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 16 | Get Happy | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 17 | Striver's Row | BLP 1581 |
| tk. 18 | All The Things You Are | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 19 | Get Happy (short version) | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note BN-LA475-H2 |
| tk. 20 | Striver's Row | Rejected at the session |
