Blue Note session · in the studio
May 14, 1958
Kenny Burrell Septet
- This day's music is on 2 records: Blue Lights Volume 1, Blue Lights Volume 2
In the room
- Kenny Burrell – guitar
- Louis Smith – trumpet
- Tina Brooks – tenor sax
- Junior Cook – tenor sax
- Duke Jordan – piano
- Bobby Timmons – piano
- Sam Jones – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
The takes
1 of these 9 takes stayed in the vault at the time: alternates and tunes that weren't issued. Switch to hear only the ones that came out on the records.
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. 1 | I Never Knew | Not issued at the time · later on Blue Note (J) GXF-3070 |
| tk. 2 | Scotch Blues | BLP 1596 |
| tk. 4 | The Man I Love | BLP 1597 |
| tk. 8 | Yes Baby | 45 · 45-1716, BLP 1596 |
| tk. 9 | Phinupi | BLP 1597 |
| Matrix · take | Title | First out on |
|---|---|---|
| tk. 10 | Chuckin' | BLP 1597 |
| tk. 11 | Autumn In New York | BLP 1596 |
| tk. 12 | Rock Salt | 45 · 45-1717, BLP 1597 |
| tk. 14 | Caravan | BLP 1596 |
Where it ended up
Together elsewhere
The other albums at least two of these players are on together.
3 of them 4 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 1524 | 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia | Kenny Dorham | 1956 | Kenny Burrell, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones |
 | BLP 1543 | Kenny Burrell Volume 2 | Kenny Burrell | 1957 | Kenny Burrell, Bobby Timmons, Sam Jones |
 | BLP 4002 | House Party · not on the site yet | Jimmy Smith | 1958 | Kenny Burrell, Tina Brooks, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 4011 | The Sermon! · not on the site yet | Jimmy Smith | 1959 | Kenny Burrell, Tina Brooks, Art Blakey |
2 of them 6 albums
| No. | Title | Leader | Year | Who | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | BLP 5064 | Julius Watkins Sextet Vol. 2 · not on the site yet | Julius Watkins Sextet | 1955 | Duke Jordan, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 1551 | At the Organ Volume 1 | Jimmy Smith | 1957 | Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 1552 | At the Organ Volume 2 | Jimmy Smith | 1958 | Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 1595 | Somethin' Else | Cannonball Adderley | 1958 | Sam Jones, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 4003 | Moanin' · not on the site yet | Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers | 1958 | Bobby Timmons, Art Blakey |
 | BLP 1556 | The Sounds of Jimmy Smith | Jimmy Smith | 1959 | Kenny Burrell, Art Blakey |