Lean Media in the music world: From Led Zeppelin to the Deftones

It's not unusual to have first takes used on jazz albums. In fact you can read about making of "Kind of Blue" (http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Making_of_Kind_of_Bl...).

What you hear on that record is not only the first complete take of each tune, but also it was the first time the tunes were played at all.