Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

March 23, 1958

Bennie Green 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. 2I Love You 45 · 45-1706, BLP 1587
tk. 4Melba's Mood 45 · 45-1707, BLP 1587
tk. 8Just Friends 45 · 45-1707, BLP 1587
tk. 12Green Street BLP 1587
tk. 13Bennie Blows The BluesBLP 1587
tk. 15You're Mine You 45 · 45-1706, BLP 1587
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.

2 of them 3 albums

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
PRLP 7052Bennie Green Blows His HornBennie Green Sextet1956Bennie Green, Charlie Rouse
BLP 1582Cliff CraftCliff Jordan1958George Tucker, Louis Hayes
BLP 1583Curtis Fuller Volume 3Curtis Fuller1960George Tucker, Louis Hayes