Pour Over Jazz

Blue Note session · in the studio

July 28, 1958

Lou Donaldson 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. 2Play Ray 45 · 45-1721, BLP 1593
tk. 5The Masquerade Is Over 45 · 45-1720, BLP 1593
tk. 10Autumn Nocturne 45 · 45-1721, BLP 1593
tk. 11Callin' All Cats BLP 1593
tk. 13Move BLP 1593
tk. 15Blues Walk 45 · 45-1720, BLP 1593
All 6 takes found on Spotify

Where it ended up

Together elsewhere

The other albums at least two of these players are on together.

The whole band 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1566Swing and SoulLou Donaldson1957Lou Donaldson, Herman Foster, Peck Morrison, Dave Bailey, Ray Barretto

4 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 4053Light-Foot · not on the site yetLou Donaldson1961Lou Donaldson, Herman Foster, Peck Morrison, Ray Barretto

3 of them 1 album

No.TitleLeaderYearWho
BLP 1545Wailing with LouLou Donaldson1957Lou Donaldson, Herman Foster, Peck Morrison