Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

November 10, 1957

Cliff Jordan Quintet

Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ

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. 1ConfirmationBLP 1582
tk. 4AnthropologyBLP 1582
tk. 7Soul-Lo BluesBLP 1582
tk. 9LaconiaBLP 1582
tk. 11Cliff CraftBLP 1582
tk. 13Sophisticated LadyBLP 1582
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 1583Curtis Fuller Volume 3Curtis Fuller1960Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, George Tucker, Louis Hayes

3 of them 2 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1570Dial "S" for SonnySonny Clark1957Art Farmer, Sonny Clark, Louis Hayes
BLP 1589Further ExplorationsHorace Silver1958Clifford Jordan, Art Farmer, Louis Hayes

2 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1562The Stylings of SilverHorace Silver1957Art Farmer, Louis Hayes
BLP 1587Back on the SceneBennie Green1958George Tucker, Louis Hayes
BLP 1588Cool Struttin'Sonny Clark1958Art Farmer, Sonny Clark