Blue Note session · in the studio
March 23, 1958
Bennie Green Quintet
In the room
- Bennie Green – trombone
- Charlie Rouse – tenor sax
- Joe Knight – piano
- George Tucker – 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. 2 | I Love You | 45 · 45-1706, BLP 1587 |
| tk. 4 | Melba's Mood | 45 · 45-1707, BLP 1587 |
| tk. 8 | Just Friends | 45 · 45-1707, BLP 1587 |
| tk. 12 | Green Street | BLP 1587 |
| tk. 13 | Bennie Blows The Blues | BLP 1587 |
| tk. 15 | You're Mine You | 45 · 45-1706, BLP 1587 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
2 of them 3 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRLP 7052 | Bennie Green Blows His Horn | Bennie Green Sextet | 1956 | Bennie Green, Charlie Rouse | |
| BLP 1582 | Cliff Craft | Cliff Jordan | 1958 | George Tucker, Louis Hayes | |
| BLP 1583 | Curtis Fuller Volume 3 | Curtis Fuller | 1960 | George Tucker, Louis Hayes |
