Blue Note session · in the studio
January 13, 1958
Horace Silver Quintet
In the room
- Horace Silver – piano
- Art Farmer – trumpet
- Clifford Jordan – tenor sax
- Teddy Kotick – bass
- Louis Hayes – drums
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 · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 3 | The Outlaw | 45 · 45-1705, BLP 1589 |
| tk. 9 | Melancholy Mood | BLP 1589 |
| tk. 10 | Moonrays | BLP 1589 |
| tk. 12 | Ill Wind | BLP 1589 |
| tk. 16 | Pyramid | BLP 1589 |
| tk. 21 | Safari | 45 · 45-1705, BLP 1589 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
4 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1562 | The Stylings of Silver | Horace Silver | 1957 | Horace Silver, Art Farmer, Teddy Kotick, Louis Hayes |
3 of them 1 album
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1582 | Cliff Craft | Cliff Jordan | 1958 | Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Louis Hayes |
2 of them 6 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLP 1539 | 6 Pieces of Silver | Horace Silver | 1956 | Horace Silver, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 4325 | Horace Silver Quintet · not on the site yet | Horace Silver Quintet | 1956 | Horace Silver, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1549 | Blowing in from Chicago | Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore | 1957 | Horace Silver, Clifford Jordan | |
| BLP 1550 | Hank Mobley Quintet | Hank Mobley | 1957 | Horace Silver, Art Farmer | |
| BLP 1570 | Dial "S" for Sonny | Sonny Clark | 1957 | Art Farmer, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1583 | Curtis Fuller Volume 3 | Curtis Fuller | 1960 | Art Farmer, Louis Hayes |
