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Note 1: "People talking and some music."; Note 2: CDI 1. talk, static, street noise, riffs, trumpet. "One o'clock" "Jimmy" and "Jay" (not there) 2. discussion, "Frank" (telephone street noise. And Lin/Gin talk in distant background 3. footsteps, street noise, quiet talk 4. cont'd "shit I wish I had lots of money" 5. cont'd 6. descending footsteps and talk , phone rings. 7. cont'd loft noise 8. cont'd and razor blade and shaving talk." Phone right there" Lin and Gin talking. 9 talk and sounds 10. piano riffs, runte talk and Lin/Gin 11. talk and cont'd loft content CDII 1. con'td footsteps, street noise, "Gine" "shine your shoes" CDIII1. voices in loft. Trumpet riffs. Smith's voice. and other 2. bass and trumpet. stairsteps, knocking "hey Frank" Billy?? Gene Smith and "Jimmy the bass player" 3. riffs and Smith talking. Loft conversation and noise. Bob Caselli, Lin halliday, bobby, gin, Casselli/Carisi ??? CDIV 1. "bob" trumpet and cymbal riffs. "let's play Georgia..." piano joins (loft sounds) 2. talk and singing "loverman" (tune to be played next? tape ends);

Note 1: "Comedy show with some jazz on one side. Opera on other side."; Note 2: CDI voices in loft. Kids, Overton? Funny fake radio show and ranting, into the microphone. 2. counting and musicial education jokes. Sam, Jan Pearson (?? Real names) 3 silly song and joking around. 4. cont'd with very bawdy song (Teddy Charles???) 5. Teddy Charles singing a dirty/bawdy song and shouting. "This is Monitor" Musical humor mixed in with the blue material. 6. con'td 7. (jumps to) previous recording of kids and back and forth with adults making a homemade improvised novelty recording 8. cont'd (both) 9. "John Barleycorne" dramatic reading 10. con'td , Beowulf) "Joan Anderson" 11. 12 and 13. Frederick Warlock, Poetry of Robert Burns, Scottish border ballads, CRM brooks, and Tyrone Guthrie (radio/TV) CDII 1. Scottish border ballads, cont'd. CRM Brooks, recorded by Cadman. WNYC 11 "Spoken Words" program. News: Khruscev, Eisenhauer, Long Island Railroad Strike "12 Noon" Midday symphony, Cambini, Contratante, Noturno Martucci, and Cowell Symphony #10. 2. Cambini piece (jumps to 3. talk program. book "Live and Let Live" "July 12 mentioned as date? then next week "People and Ideas with Lee Graham" and the Evenings by the River radio program. 6. WNEW speech and LBJ letter read by Robert Kennedy. Newark news, July 12, 1960. (jumps to) Dorothy Parker speech, Beat Generation and Kerouac covered by Parker. Also Leslie Fielder content CDIII 1. cont'd from previous CD, Wright Morris on New York and writing, other subjects 2. cont'd and Fidler content, turth 3. James Joys and others mentined 4. Dante and others mentioned by narrator. CDIV Leslie Fielder, Saul Bellow content (not speaking) "2nd Writer's Symposium by Esquire" WBAI. "The Folio" on WBAI. The Makato by Gilbert and Sullivan. 2. Mikado 3. Mikado, new songs including "Behold the Lord High executioner" (last song ends midsong) ;

Note 1: "Probable situation? Time:Winter-59-60. Hallo Verton, piano. Ronny Free, drums. Fred Greenwell, tenor. Sounds like stereo or 4 track mono or 3 stereo track mono sounds like. "Song You. Brook Meyer starts Don Ferrea-Trumpet. Zoot s. Tenor Ereenwell. Hallor Seran, Piano. Ronny Free, drums. 8 Bars - Brook-Zoot-Don-Ereen As Follows out coravon is listed on other slip of paper."; Note 2: CDI 1. Midsong: piano, drums trumpet and sax 2. talk, and tune talk 3. piano bass, drums, trombone, trumpet, sa. "Fred" , "John" Tune: "I hear music" 4. Tune: "Caravan" riffs and anter into song, ends midsong. Zoot Sims and Freddie Greenwell identified by Free. Hall Overton confirmed by Free (12/07) ;

Note 1: "Parts of III Tracks. Joe E. Masters, piano. Allen Neese, Bb trumpet. Warren Fitzgerald, Bb trumpet. Louis J. Ornstien, Bb tenor sax. Fred Greenwell, Bb tenor sax. Allen Levitt, drums. Garry Hawkins. Woody Herman, pianist and also Bass with woody Rock well- Larry . Hal Bigler, bassist House Band. Joe Lopes on a few of the early tunes, Eb alto sax. Tunes: Jordu, Mean To Me, Rhythm theme, Softly, Sunrise, etc."; Note 2: CDI 1. Riffs and talk. PIano bass, drums, sax, trumpet. (mixed levels of microphone) 2. drum leads into tune, good sax solo (jumps to) Smith singing and checking mics 3 cont'd (jumps to) back to music, clapping in time to a solo 4. talk CDII 1. Midsong, piano bass drums "We're in the money" "Yeah Larry" at end, then a Monk tune riffed by sax. going home and "C'mon Gary" "Joe, it was a pleasure man." 2. talk and riffs, Smith singig, off mic 3. cont'd (jumps to ) Radio "the Steve Richards Show" 4. cont'd with radio and loft content 5. cont'd with Smith singing 6. cont'd 7. cont'd 8. cont'd CDIII 1. "Hey Hal" (Hall?) and more talk. riffs and tune drums, sax, trumpet, bass, ends eith talk and riffs 2. tune and tune talk, new tune and more talk "Joey" then new tune (3rd tune, ends midsong) ;

Note 1: "Turner mike. First: Jam Session recording on Uher March 3, 1961. Bassist with a Beard. Short piano player. Second side has Gary demonstrating drums to someone. Do not have names of players."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, piano, bass, drum trumpet 2. riffs and tune 3. talking and riffs 4. fades into cont'd riffs 5. drum riffs 6. drum riffs and some talk 7. drums playing a rhythm CDII 1. drums riffs, cont'd . Talk "The bumble bee?" "Christy Ferbo wrote it." drum talk and demo 2. drumming demo 3. cont'd with talk 4. cont'd and talk, mention of Joe DeParis and ?Billy" (in loft?) 5. cont'd Ralph Hughes book mentioned and demonstration of drum cont'd at end of reel ;

Note 1: "Jazz Waltz and Blues. Session: Bob Brookmeyer, Jimmy Guiffre."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, sax drums bass, carinet, piano. Then talk, including: "The only artist that paints himself." (jumps to) Midsong, piano, drums, bass with voices in room. 2. cont'd during bass solo then trombone solo and "Jimmy" 3. cont'd with talk, ends midsong during trombone solo CDII 1. piano riffs, trombone riffs, voices and tune talk including: "Does it grind meat?" Guitar, bass trombone (Jim Hall and Brookmeyer most likely) ;

Note 1: "One side blank. One side 3 3/4 ips. May 26, 1960 Gary Hawkins."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, drum trumpet bass, sax, piano "Hey Gary" "I've seen the dawn come up every day for the past…it's a good feeling to see the dawn come up because you only live once." 2. cont'd "I've never tried so hard in my life." and more talk incl. "I gotta be up by two and take care of my business." Riffs and cognizance of being recorded: "did you record that?" "the whole half hour" ..."I turned it over, man" 3. into song then talk 4. talk "arborato in 6"?? Tune. Talk: "let's listen to that, man" 5. con'td 6. listening to recorded song and then talk and tune then talk again "gotta be up by noon" and tune talk "Can you cat's play 'conception'?" (ends) CDII 1. singing molody and riffs, tune talk 2. tune bass, drums, sax, trumpet, some piano. ends with riffs and quiet talk 3. sax, trumpet, drum (ends cold) ;

Note 1: "April 17-18, 1961? Uher. Baritone sax, drums, bass. Part with Aleike in front room then it's cord changed to turner over piano? Hal may have been playing drums."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, piano, sax, drums, ends cold 2. tune talk "chromatic style" and more quiet talk "Slow boat to China" 3. riffs into tune 4. talk and "day after day" suggested 5. talk riffs, footsteps "Cherokee" suggested 6. cont'd tune talk: " I remember when he first wrote it." then riffing tune. CDII 1. footsteps and loft noise. cab fare talk, going home talk 2. sax bass drum into tune 3. riffs after stopping tune, singings change, back to tune 4. restarts tune, slower tempo and "we'll do it again" after stopping midsong 5. sax, drums, riff and bass joins for casual tuen 6. talk 7. riffs into tune "Hey Hal/Hall, can you help?" (dropout) 8. fades into midsong, piano sax drum, jumps to mic noise without music (end) CDIII 1. silence and mic tap, piano sax and drum 2. musc and bass, drum sax piano then riffs and beginning of quiet talk (end) ;

Note 1: "Rather Poor Session. Some not bad. May 18, 1960. One side Blank. (Not blank--perhaps it was recorded at a time later than when the box was written on). Tape #1. Of Gary Halkins, etc...Maybe Hal Bigler? and Manny."; Note 2: 1. Midsong, sax bass drum, piano, trumpet. Ends with tune talk. 2. tune talk cont'd with riffs and changes discussed, led by piano player teaching others the song 3. tune with "slow it down just a little" Piano, bass, drums, sax, trumpet 4. riffs and talk, and names of people, not necessarily in loft: Howard Williams Joe Oliver, Hank Haney 5. tune, ends midsong. Good playing. CDII 1. cont'd tune then talk and riffs "you like 'bye bye blackbird'?" other tunes mentioned "let's play that one Miles Davis plays" (demo on piano) "that's an awful lot like 'How high the moon' " 2. tune, talk, riffs 3. talk and riffs "Howard" "you seen Gerry/Jerry" 4. riffs into tune "Man bud Powell plays the shit out of that one." 5. talk, riffs, "Straight, No Chaser" 6. "John Paul Jones" wanna do that one? tune, ends midsong. ;

Note 1: "Jazz music. Talking."; Note 2: CDI 1. bass and drums "The mic is set at '12'" Talk, including Ron Free talking to Smith and another about life. "I get along with Ted" "he and Tommy needling each other" 2. "Fred Greenwell was…agonizing, but I wasn't." 3. Gene Smith talking, Ron Free talking about Freddie Greenwell. Ted situation with Smith. 4. Microphone recording ethics, logistics, and permissions from Smith. 5. Ron, Smith talking. Mention of Dudley Watson. 6. talk cont'd 7. cont'd talk 8. cont'd, drums mentioned. 9. Ron Free talking about dynamics of playing 10. Tommy on guitar tape, Ron Free talking about drumming, impt. 11. more music talk, Dave (Greenwell) mentioned (ends as drums begin to riff) ;

Note 1: "Sept. 1961. Stereo One way. Jabbering of session and angries get out. out going. JPS, Downs, Hallways."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, piano, bass, drums, trumpet, "Salt peanuts" played or included 2. sax riffs 3. tune, including p, b, d, s, trumpet. Stiarway and loft sounds, doors, and male and female yellig at each other in the stairs or street 4. argument and music continued, (mulitiple mics) CDII 1. mid drum riffs and soe sax 2. footsteps, ambient loft noise (ends) ;

Note 1: "2nd side is blank. one side. A mixture of sessions, dialogues. Smith and Carole with Fred Devon at piano and girl piano player with others. Part of first side may be only on 2nd track."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, bass, drum, piano trumpets then talk 2. riffs, "Just the way you look tonight" played ends with tune talk 3. trumpet and piano riffs into tune, ends midtune. CDII 1. radio or tv content. small town play 1-9. (jumps to ( piano vi tv and radio NTA television. Maneshevitz commericial. Spaghetti commercial. Channel 13 TV station ID then news: Screen Actors Guild Strike, Congo Mobuto vs. Ghana, LBJ, president elect JFK. 10. Preparation H commercial, Stork Club incident on news. recount vs. Kennedy (after election, pre Thanksgiving) Eisenhauer quail hunting, Bobby Darin and Sandra Dee news 12. Rabbi's speech and station ID and sign off before National Anthem 13. ends. ;

Note 1: "2nd side as some bad recording of piano trying to make mikes work at halls. 3 repeats of 'A Flight of dust' Dubbed on Pentror connectors to speaker of Kardon."; Note 2: CDI 1. W. Eugene Smith (using different voices) reading of Flight of Dust 2. Flight of Dust, take two 3. Flight of dust, take three CDII 1. buzz, piano, clasical passages and microphone tampering by Smith and maybe Overton as pianist ;

Note 1: "Hal Bigler and Girl, piano. Hal and Fem."; Note 2: CDI 1. woman talking,pianist talking about piano mentions "jean" or "Gene" who is not there (Hal Bigler is male voice?) 2. piano talk , heater mentioned television mentioned 3. talk footsteps getting ready for bed, Dristan negotiations an dpillow talk . Observation of microphones "not recording...sometimes, I think" CDII 1. overlap and cont'd scene from CDI 2, 3, and 4. cont'd ambience noise from the now quiet room;

Note 1: "One side at least Hal and femme."; Note 2: CDI Radio 1. announcer Dorsey Brothers tune and concert listings then Bing Crosby "Dinah…Carolina" Dixeland song, Weary blues Ray McKinley by Dorsey and Charlie Barnett Manhattan talkset 2. announcer 3. "until the real thing comes along" 4. Charles Barnett and Orchestra 5. piano clip 6. "Larry Clinton and Doug Corrigan 7. "Somewhere there is music" and "How high the moon" 8. ballad, Terry Allen and Larry Clinton and femaile vocalist 9. "We always know where to find ...Ol" (lyrics as CD ends) CDII 1. male and female quiet talk 2. loft sound, static, talk but under audio buzz 3. cont'd with some footsteps 4. con'td some laughter 5. cont'd talk and discussion of :"sexy" 7. talk and humming 8. cont'd less talk, (speed slows on tape for a minute before end) ;

Note 1: "John Benson Grook. Piano also Modern. Taped from Noreco suite to norllco stereo."; Note 2: CDI 1. 1. "Blues for Vienna" drum riffs and counting, avant composition played by full band 2. cont'd then talk "Barre" (Barre Phillips??) Bass, piano, drum, sax 3. Avant composition cont'd 4. cont'd 5 cont'd 6 con'td then ends CDII recorded off of commercial recording? 1. tune, piano solos 2. tune, avant classical 3. jazz blues 4. con'td but different arrangment 5. old time jazz 6. tune 7. tune cont'd ;

Note 1: "1960? 2nd track of session upstairs. Judy Schiff production for Zife Davis. Stereo Gene and Carole on the one track. Pending in Heat. Music background."; Note 2: CDI 1. talk "piano player" drum and sax and piano riffs "What's Charlie doing, sleeping?" "yeah" 2. cont'd riffs and tuning, "Al" tune talk "You know 'Bag's Groove'?" 3. tune, bass, drums, piano, sax, trumpet. 4. tune talk and tune, 5. riffs, "in a mellow tone? Jackson?" more talk "Lou" and "Hal" "minor Blues" called 6 into tune, Minor Blues 7. Tune talk and riffs "Horace" (not there) (ends) CDII 1. "C'mon Don/John" sax riffs and tune talk 2. tune, bass,sax, trumpet. Ends: riffs and tune talk. 3. riffs, female and male voices. "Hey Jimmy" "asthma" "Bass player's in the bathroom, why don't we cool it for about 5 minutes and then resume?" , talk, riffs, 4. sax riffs, and talk, trumpet riffs;

Note 1: "Uher. April 18? 1961. Best is dialogue about players, whites and blacks, New Orleans, commercialism and play the pad for dame arrangements up starirs. Drums: Dick Gail. Tenor Bob? Piano Bourbins t. 6. 2 musicians: Dick Gale, drums and Bob, piano and tenor- From "Bourbins st. 6." Dixie Group appearing at Nick's Village Club. Ralph Rost, Fred G, Hal B."; Note 2: CDI 1. talk, riffs, tune. Good sax. Phone dialing audible. Bass,drum, piano, 2+ sax. 2. Phone call regarding flight info. Musicians talk 3. riffs and talk "My names's Hal Bigler" "I'm Dick Gale" 4. talk cont'd with sax. Talk about jazz. Mention of Robert Frank and Dave (David Young?) Talk mentions Bill Evans, Pee Wee Russell, Duke Ellington, Ray Allen, Red Rodney, others. CDII 1. Conversation includes "Bird" (Charlie Parker) handball, sports and origin of musicians 2. talk inlcudes "Freddie" who's there, and jazz 3. Talk includes Paul Kotick, sonny Dallas, Paul Chambers, Heath, Red Mitchelll, Dave McKenna, Krupa 4. cont'd with riffs. Includes mouthpieces, teaching in Bolon Texas. 5. Lou Ornstein and talk about Clifford Jordan and Lester Young 6. Tommy Dorsey mentioned and local beer or cofffee shops. Record player in loft. Garry Hawkins, Jerry Ball, Ralph (in loft) Hal (not there). Dave's parties in the loft referenced (Young not living there now) 7. Many names and talk including Dave McKenna. 8. riffs and talk: Warren Fitzgerald. "that's the introduction to 'more than you know' isn't it?" 3 Stooges reference, War and cuba and space as subjects. Music, bars, work, and McSoreley's "oldest tavern in New York" mentioned CDIII 1. good talk and mention: Jimmy Raney record, Swedish Jazz. female jazz playes. 2. riffs and record (Jimmy Raney) (?Swingin' in Sweden") 3. cont'd with talk and names 4. "rock and roll" mentioned in cont'd talk, also Art Tatum 5. Tune and changes discussed and played. 6. tune with sax, bass, drum. Ends during bass solo, midtune. ;

Note 1: "Tandberg, Sept 11, 1963. Mainly microphone test. AKG 19C, Reslo, Altec. Some distortion, I think on Reslo."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, sax, bass, drum. Then riffs and talk 2. riffs and talk . Reference to Joe Henderson, and Ben Golson. 3. Talk and loose tune 4. drum riffs and sax, and bass joins 5. Tune talk, "Don't hang out too long because these people gotta sleep." 6. riffs and tune CDII 1. Midsong, sax, bass, drum. midtempo. Ends midsong. ;

Note 1: "1960. Castro at UN. Kennedy and music."; Note 2: CDI 1. midprogram, static and low volume. "Small planes" undetected spy plans (Cuban speaker translated into English) 2. USA Cuba politics 3. Speaker, Fidel Castro continues with this speech through track 13. CDII Castro speech cont'd with 2. applause 4. moderator interruption and correction with Castro apology and continued speech. continues through track 14 CDIII Monday, September 26, 1960. 1. Atomic Bomb discussion and station ID WNYC news. Castro, UN, Khrushchev. Death of Emily Post 2. News on Castro cont'd. "9 o'clock" 3. Pepsi ad 4. radio tuning to classical, static. 5. static 6. "2000 years of music" ends, Corelli, then "special broadcast" on WNYC 7. Singer sewing ad then JFK/Kennedy debate with Richard Nixon 8. JFK uses the Georgia peanut farmer as a random example continues through 11. CDIV 1. JFK/Nixon debate cont'd 7. Moderator: Howard K. Smith, Chicago 8. JS Bach: Suite #2 for cello solo in D Minor, Metislav Rostropovich ends during announcer on track 11. CDV 1. cont'd outro music "tomorrow at 10" and 2. WNYC news President Eisenhower, Castro, Guantanamo, 4.5 hours Castro speech, ad for "Around New York" on WNYC with Jay Jones then Critics Choice 3. Mahler Symph #9 and Albani "Year of Seville" . Mayor Wagoner PSA for teens then Walter Stedman hosts Critics Choice where Mozart's Serenade #10 in A-Flat Minor is played from a Mercury recording, Eastman Wind Ensemble...4. Music starts;

Note 1: "Bad Session and bad sound. Dudley Watson, Joe Lopes, Geo. Syran, Ronnie Free."; Note 2: CDI 1. Midsong and riffs: Piano, bass, drum, sax. Sax solo in progress. Some talk under music. 2. tune talk 3. jumps to midsong of similar group with bass solo and commnets after song 4. "talk about music and riffs 5. riffs and tune then: "Can we play a slow tune, man? One slow tune." 6. Tune talk, suggesting "Garden in the rain" 7. "A minor, right?" Riffs and tune talk then "want to play 'Round About Midnight?'" (a Monk tune)8. more talk and tune 9. bass solo and ends midsong CDII 1. Pageboy, song starts midtune 2. cont'd 3. cont'd with levels adjusted by Smith 5. talk and riffs 6. "We played this last night and we played it a lot different than that" "Fred was right" and "...let's play something else." 7. talk and Smith says: "I"m still the policy maker around here." 8. riffs and talk tape talk by Smith 9. cont'd riffs 10. tune talk and tune (ends midsong) ;

Note 1: "Buzz Brauner, tenor Joe Lopes, alto Ronnie Free, drums Dick Sheridan, drums Dolph Castellani, piano"; Note 2: CDI Midsong. Sax, bass, drums, piano. Bass solo and tune ends " You don't know Jack Spearman, do you?" 2. Talk. Midnight. Tune talk, musician, directions talk. CDII 1. Midsong: piano, bass, drums, saxes. Tune talk 2. Talk and riffs. Tune, ends midsong. ;

Note 1: "Stereo. Session after Fri. Class (of D. Heath's Book). Joe Oliver Drums, Frank. Bass, Dave S. Bari., Ronnie Cuba. Trombone, Bennie. Piano, Lynn Holiday. Dialogue, Gene, Dave, Frank, etc."; Note 2: CDI 1. Riffs and multiple voices. Tune talk. Smith adjusting mics, talking. Someone saying goodnight to 'Ron'. Smith on reinstalling a light in the space. Someone saw a movie at the Apollo Theater. 2. Light discussion and Smith's loft photos referenced. Acknowledged recording of session(s).2. Lots of excellent** talk. Includss recording, Sonny Clark, Ansel Adams as subjects. Also, Smith's New School Class. CDII Sax, bass, drums, piano. 1. Midsong, bass solo. "Manny" Ronnie. Riffs from "Giant Steps" by Coltrane. 2. riffs and talk. Looking for something. Sounds of footsteps 3. riffs and talk;

Note 1: "Session after Fri. Class. Drums, Frank. Bass, Dave. Sax, Jack Parkhurst. T-bone, Barry Blonddell. Dialogue about asthma, Dick Cary. And late arrival."; Note 2: CDI 1. Midsong, sax bass drum piano. Jumps to different part of same song 2. talk "Frank…Amoss" and "Alright, Gene" Loft talk and recording mentioned. Also, Dick Cary's piano. Wingy Manone, mics, sessions and other topics discussed in more detail than usual. 3. Cont'd loft water and plumbing, sunrise occurs, departures. Pageboy begins ambient noise from street audible. CDII 1. traffic and squeaky noise. Wrong speed through end of this 9. loud engine revving, footsteps and hammering. ;

Note 1: "UN 1960."; Note 2: CDI 1. Gilbert and Sullivan: The Gondoliers. Midway, end of Act I beginning of Act II. 2. Jumps to Medea by Robinson Jeffers on "The Play of the Week" Starring Judith Anderson. 3-10. cont'd CDII 1. cont'd Medea -10. 11. Jeckle and Hyde and Mr. Clean Proctor and Gamble commercial then on 13. Playback on NTA television. Eileen Farrell "I've got a right to sing the blues" CDIII 1. Cont'd 2. Jumps to All About Eve, world television premier -6.;

Note 1: "Some not bad. May 18, 1960. Gary Hawlkins, etc. Manny, Rather poor session. 1/2 track side 2+3 or 3+4?"; Note 2: CDI 1. riffs, piano and tpt. "I'd like to get straight on the bridge" 2. tune with piano, bass, drums, sax, tpt. 3. static with riffs and tune 4. riffs and tune talk "Lou" 5. New song, ends midtune. CDII 1. misong 2. cont'd with static 3. New song and tune talk "Dave?" 4. tune talk and tune. ends midsong. ;

Note 1: "Turner Mike. May 26, 1960. At Gary Hawkins. Al Nee, Trumpet Joe Furvall, tenor Hal Bigley, bass Garry Hawlkins, drums"; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong piano bass drum sax. Ends with riffs and talk, mention of Sonny Rollins 2. tune with trombone solo added to mix. Blues. CDII 1. midsong same group 2. tune talk and riffs 3. new tune led by piano, complete tune. ;

Note 1: "3 7/8 stereo. Viking Session at Gary's after bad start."; Note 2: CDI 1. Long John Nebel show. ESP. Carnegie Deli ad. Loft audible in right channel, Smith and others. WOR Channel 9. TV program mentioned. Jack Paar and karate expert. 2 nights after this LJN show. 2. Smith, Carole Thomas in loft. Jumps to ambient loft. 3. cont'd with tune played in loft 4. talk in both channels 5. New tune 6. both channels loft talk. mention of Gary and Al. CDII 1. Piano riffs and tune talk. trumpet and footsepts, talk in right channel. 2. cont'd "Vinnie" 3. riffs, steps, talk 4. cont'd "Hal Bigler," ambient and talk 5-8. relatively silent. ;

Note 1: "7 1/2. #1 and #2 April 19, 1961. Monavral on Uher. Two sides? Tracks Only. At Hal's and Gary's but I believe Hal may have been playing only at end of second side. (Beginning of "What Is This Thing Called Love") Continued on next tape."; Note 2: CDI 1. piano riffs and talking in background 2. cont'd with multiple instruments into tune. Piano, saxes, tpt, drums, bass (piano not played on tune) 3. cont'd long tune ends during bass solo CDII 1. Midsong with solos, Piano, bass, drum, saxes and tpt. 2. cont'd 3. riffs and talk 4. riffs "Tom Wayburn" mentioned and tune 5. cont'd tune (Smith raises volume) 6. Talk: "Wish we had a better piano to play around here." Names 7. talk and riffs, piano and bowed bass "What is this thing called love" called and played. ;

Note 1: "Check 3 tracks. Drum Lesson. Gary and someone. Then Some Sax with Freddison."; Note 2: CDI 1. 1. sax riffs, ambient street, Pageboy 2. cont'd 3. cont'd with talk 4. tune talk "a matter of hours" into tune 5. tune cont'd then into a Monk tune and talk 6. telephone number and other talk into tune "Monk's Mood" ;

Note 1: "Sept 8, 1960. Near write tape machine. Good sax and recording distortion."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong piano sax bass, drums (some distortion on tape) then talk and riffs 2. Jumps to midsong, good playing. ;