Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

January 13, 1958

Horace Silver 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. 3The Outlaw 45 · 45-1705, BLP 1589
tk. 9Melancholy Mood BLP 1589
tk. 10Moonrays BLP 1589
tk. 12Ill Wind BLP 1589
tk. 16Pyramid BLP 1589
tk. 21Safari 45 · 45-1705, BLP 1589
All 6 takes found on Spotify

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 1562The Stylings of SilverHorace Silver1957Horace Silver, Art Farmer, Teddy Kotick, Louis Hayes

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1582Cliff CraftCliff Jordan1958Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Louis Hayes

2 of them 6 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 15396 Pieces of SilverHorace Silver1956Horace Silver, Louis Hayes
BLP 4325Horace Silver Quintet · not on the site yetHorace Silver Quintet1956Horace Silver, Louis Hayes
BLP 1549Blowing in from ChicagoCliff Jordan & John Gilmore1957Horace Silver, Clifford Jordan
BLP 1550Hank Mobley QuintetHank Mobley1957Horace Silver, Art Farmer
BLP 1570Dial "S" for SonnySonny Clark1957Art Farmer, Louis Hayes
BLP 1583Curtis Fuller Volume 3Curtis Fuller1960Art Farmer, Louis Hayes