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Note 1: January, 1964. Marked "Private". Jimmy Stevenson, Charles DeForest (singer). Sandy Stevenson on telephone. W. Eugen Smith (piano and voice). CDI 1. Playing tune, piano: "Who wrote that?" "I did." 2. Tune talk. 3. Cont'd: "April is no time for fools" Coffee drink discussion. 4. Tune "Really should be in the show or review..." 5. Tune talk, loft talk "room w/out windows." 6. tune rehearsed 7. tune talk 8. tune 9. tune talk: Al Cohn's former wife, girl pianist Adelaide, Nipsy Russell, Basie, Sinatra and son, Robin Hood film, Ray Palmer, YWCA Capitol , Nicky de Travis, Carnival Lounge, Dorothy Kilgow, friend of Jack Thompson CDII 1. Conversation cont'd. Oedipus complex, psychiatry, Jack at the Apartment*, Lou, "The Baths" , Suddenly, Last Summer, Jackie's bassman- Larry Living?, Val Anthony, Charles and Pettiford fired from there, others, Sany calls 2. Smith talks on channel 3. Smith on piano (abstract) sings and beats on drums, playing around.

Note 1: Smith's notes: "Friday AM?" CDI 1. WOR-TV Channel 9. Movie. Jazz NY, immigrants. CDII 1. continued CDIII 1. tape glitch then drama continued. Then "A View from the Bridge" (show title) CDIV 1. Baseball game: Whitey Ford vs. Earl Wilson (NY Yankees vs. Boston Redsox). Quickly switches to anohter channel, Stravinsky Petrushca, Gunter Schuller on Contemporary Music in Evolution, Pacifica Radio. "Delinquency and underpriviledge." 99.5 FM (Pacifica cont'd). tuning improves. CDV 1. speech cont'd to applause 2. "The Nerve of Failure" Dr. Thomas Billings Convocation at Sacramento College. WBAI. Men's chorus 3. KPFA News 4. BVAI Julliard String Quartet plays Schoenberg String Quartet #4, 12 tone piece(s). Then news with "Democratic Governor of Massachusetts" CDVI 1. Classical strings music. 2. Paul B. Johnson Jr, Mississippi Governor (radio static) Descartes speaker (another station?) 3. silence CDVII 1. Loft noise and gospel on radio? setting up drums in loft. "It's so much cooler when it's clean in here." (female voice, several other male voices in background). "You guys want to get something to eat after we clean up in here?" "We can get coffee or something." "strange cat" "24th street....he's a strange motherfucker...that cat Miff...right down the block." More cleaning and talking, Smith typing, "Jack, did you see my keys here?" Wagner music in background, approp. CDVIII 1. Continued loft sounds with little talk. Ends after several minutes.

Note 1: January 1964 session with Jimmy Stevenson and Charles deForest (bass and singer/piano). CDI 1. song in progress 2. Talk, rehearsal. "Guy Lombardo, what is that?" 3. Guy Lombardo song and discussion. "Beatnik joints" tune talk 4. "something to live for" then to silence CDII 1. midsong arranging. "Who knows what work in the eyes of man, The Shadow do." More rehearsal and Jimmy at piano.

Note 1: January 2/3, 1964 One CD. W. Eugene Smith mic checks and changes on box, but not evident, vocally. 1. Midsong (left channel far louder than right) Sax, Bass, drum, piano. 2. Same song Microphone noise evident (switching?) 3. bass and piano solo 4. continued 6. same with some police radio picked up 7. drum solo and end of song

Note 1: Smith notes: "March 1964?" This could be same night as reel 146. CDI 1. Quiet voices in conversation. Smith raises volume. 2. More whispering and room noise. Smith raises volume again. "Jimmy", he just left about 3 to 5 minutes ago." (called his wife) 3. More whispered conversation. At least 3 voices: Toledo, Zoot, coffee, raisin bran, "coffee and a sweet roll before I left home," "called...his wife...he said he was gonna leave his drums down there for you to use" 4. "Pete, hang your suit up." More talk. 5. lots of room noise. "This is Paul Bley" (joke? photograph?) "place where I can sleep?" "my head congestion is real bad" "maybe he'll take one, this is close enough." (female voice) "Dick"... CDII 1. Continued room noise. Coughing. 2. Same 3 same 4 door and cough CDIII 1. Jimmy Stevenson talking with woman. "that's for Gene...upstairs...his apartment." "You ought to come...34th Street." Water and kitten noise. "Dave" 3. Escalated loft noise. 4. More random room sounds with street noise. 5. Same CDIV 1. Same, from CDIII 2. door opens with key sounds 3. more loft noise 4. same, ends cold.

Note 1: March 1 or 2, 1964. Conversations. Dick Scott drums, Warren? Bass, Stevenson Trumpet, Zoot Sims Sax, and ??others. 1. Midsong. Bass, drums, sax, bass. 2. Talk calling "Solar or another song 3. Tune, good sax. "Jimmy" joking around during song "Zoot" ends with quiet talk. "Terry/Perry" 4. Talk about many jazz musicians, clubs.*** Cats. Call for Jimmy from Genevieve. (silence) 5. Midsong 6. riffs 7. riffs and discussion. Gene Smith. Dick Cary...West Coast now. Several people mentioned as having been called for session. "He's called a lot of people and it's so hard to get people over there." "Nobody wants to play anymore, Zoot." Several topics...Jazz Workshop, Lenny's. (?)

Note 1: Smith's notes: "Early 1964. Dick Scott, Zoot. Some Distortion, Dick Scott - Drums, Bass -, Zoot Sims - Sax, (part of One side); Dialogue including fellow who ahd asthma and ahd to go to the hospital; Tandberg - more reels maybe" Could be precursor to 166?? CDI 1. silence 2. midsong, stops. "What did you stop for?" "I just felt like stopping." 3. Talk, riffs Zoot Sims enters "Been to the wrong building, it's been so long." Smith. Smith photograph discussed Dick Cary mentioned. Loft history, past and recent past. Don Ellis, Ernie, Piano, interior and loft history, mics. "Terry...head of hair..." 4. Tune 5. "about 2 o'clock" "Peter Ind story." Bowed bass and brushed drums. 6. drum and bass riffs. CDII All talking in loft 1. "St. Louis" hometown. "Should I turn this heater off?" "What does it feel like, a cold, Eddie?" "I'd like to have this piano, Dick(Vic?), I like that hard sound - boy." Smith with key. Smith talking about his mother (red focussing cloth). Pictures from girl who took lessons with Dave. Robbery details from Smith's apartment. Also, mention of Ruth Fetske as trusted person. Freddy (Greenwell) and Ronnie Free. Recorders. Konitz solo and recording. Smith discusses ethics of recording. Prostitution around 49th Street. Coffee. Waiting for Zoot, who has gone out.?? 2. Jackie Gleason train story. "days when everybody wanted to play." 3. drum bass riffs 4. quiet talk, someone's place had burned down. "couple of days ago...that's why he's here." 5. bass riffs. CDIII 1. quiet talk and bass 2. cont'd with clear talk. 3. drum bass song with talk: loft acoustics, Smith, recording logistics. Room in recording much better than Jimmy Stevenson's studio. More talk and music.

Note 1: February 1964. Jimmy Stevenson and others. CDI 1. Music and talk 2. same 3. piano sax with bass 4. Talk with riffs' Jazz band talk. 5. tune talk 6. Talk includes Paul, C#, "Are you from Chicago?" "Originally, yeah.", "He brought his full set this time." Jeremy's label - Columbia: Denny Zeitlin, Ben Riley. CDII 1. quiet with vocals in background. Smith and Carole in loft. CDIII 1. Radio TV with room street noise. Vacuum. Smith humming. Long Island plane crash on news. Smith falls and makes a lot of racket. Cats. Smith sings, Phone, stairs and knocking COD delivery. Intercom evident. CDIV 1. Smith, Carole, cats. Stair noise, "Gene, I don't have a key to the ? box, right now." "Merry Christmas" ...CDV 1. Gene, Carole, partitions in loft. Construction. Wiring work too. CDVI 1. Continued quiet talk.

Note 1: March 24, 1964. Charles Fox and group, rehearsal. CDI All tracks, music and Latin jazz band rehearsal with Charles "Charlie" Fox. CDII Same band rehearsal. Five tracks.

Note 1: March ??, 1964. Charles Fox and group, rehearsal. Smith's note. "Latin music rehearsal at Jimmy's" CDI 1. Midsong, rehearsal. 2. Rehearsed song, similar to one on Reel 169. 3. Same 4. Repeats track 6 of 169? (Talk of the record). 5. Track 7 of 169 1/2. 6. Same. 7. Overlaps with 1 of 169 2/2. CDII 1. Midsong 2. " direction 3. Retry of song 4. Talk tune and break 5. Conversation and flute riffs. Jimmy addressed. 6. slow version of tune.

Note 1: March 19, 1964. Jimmy Stevenson, bass; sax; singer; piano. CDI 1. Piano and unamplified singer (right channel only). 2. Same (both channels) Talk "You have no water in here? I don't believe this." 3. Talk: Jimmy driving him home for dinner. "Harry" "The hamburgers" 4. Piano and horn "Pete" "blues in F" ?Zoot" doors, downstairs (Dante??) more talk and possible identifications. 5. Tune and talk: "Still stoned?" "Blasted" 6. "You play a lot of 4ths, harmonic things." "Birdland is closed, for the week." "You want to play the alto for awhile?" 7. Classical music talk. Mouthpiece talk for sax. (Bad reed, like swinging two bats. [Baseball]) 8. More reed talk and bass/alto, piano playing. CDIII 1. midsong cont'd and more mouthpiece talk. 2. riffs and playing 3. More talk, "Jimmy didn't give me any weed."

Note 1: February 6-7, 1964. Jimmy Stevenson, bass. CDI 1. Midsong, piano, bass. 2. Quiet phone conversation 3. bass riffing, drops out to silence. 4. Kithen, bass noise, footsteps, someone hits key on piano. 5. Piano riffs, working through tune. Footsteps. 6. silence and piano riffs 7. same 8 Pone rings and Jimmy answers. Door close and departing footsteps. CDII 1. quiet conversation away from mic, Break in souond. 2. Radio show. Long John Nebel. W. Eugene Smith telegram: On Loft Photography. Story of Smith's previous $43 telegram. Vietnam war talk. LJN signing off. 3. Loft sounds: piano bass drums 4. quiet talk. Jay Cameron and Frank mentioned (not there). Gig and tune talk. 5. Into song, piano bass, drum. Tape ends before song. CDIII 1. Midsong. bass drums piano sax. Oleo. with flute this time. 2. Tune talk and getting high talk. 3. Tune, piano bass drums, flute and later sax. Mention of Miles Davis tune, March 19, 1964. Jimmy Stevenson, bass; sax; singer; piano. CDI 1. Piano and unamplified singer (right channel only). 2. Same (both channels) Talk "You have no water in here? I don't believe this." 3. Talk: Jimmy driving him home for dinner. "Harry" "The hamburgers" 4. Piano and horn "Pete" "blues in F" ?Zoot" doors, downstairs (Dante??) more talk and possible identifications. 5. Tune and talk: "Still stoned?" "Blasted" 6. "You play a lot of 4ths, harmonic things." "Birdland is closed, for the week." "You want to play the alto for awhile?" 7. Classical music talk. Mouthpiece talk for sax. (Bad reed, like swinging two bats. [Baseball]) 8. More reed talk and bass/alto, piano playing. CDIII 1. midsong cont'd and more mouthpiece talk. 2. riffs and playing 3. More talk, "Jimmy didn't give me any weed." blue..." CDIV 1. Same quartet with flute first, then sax (could be five musicians) 2. "Is it getting too warm in here?" quiet talk 3. Tune and talk. Break" "John, you're getting better" Warren/Warne. "I can't, I'm rehearsing with /Cosmo/"

Note 1: February 1/2, 1964. (Saturday) Jimmy Stevenson, bass; Eddie, drums?; Warren, piano?; other??. CDI 1. Talk rehearsals 2. "14, man, gonna be a bad motherfucker." "Hey Eddie…This guy plays twenty times better than Bobby Hunt." 3. "Hey Vinnie" Tune, new mic added by Smith to improve sound (from remote location) Smoking, playing around, Eddie on drums (Listengart) "He's off into his world,,,it's over, man." Piano, bass, drum song with urged Stevenson bass solo. 4. Talk. " Iwish those fucking drums were here." Talk about the 14 year old drummer and how better he is than the one they're waiting for to show up. 5. "Piano's pretty fucked up but sounds good anyway." Tune. Talk, mention of: Warren Bernhardt, John F, Al Coch/coh, Walter Norris w/Paul Winter?, feint at song then "sliced egg sandwich" with coffee. "Need a drink." CDII 1. "There's food here if anybody wants to eat." Phone rings, riffs, talk. 2. "My sandwich was sixty cents and that what I have." Money talk, sodas. on the side Marshall, the drummer didn't show up. "Miserable outside." "take the one down" "Paul Bley" this pictdure man, hsit, theat's the one there, but I like this one." 3. Piano starts . drinking coffee, leaving, "I'll give you the key"." "I'm gonna take Jimmy to work and come back." Marshall, can you take the train/bus?" 5. Different/next session midsong, piano, trumpet, bass, drums.

Note 1: Jimmy Stevenson, "Mike Rod" (Smith's notes). Rehearsal sound. Several horns, guitar, piano, trumpet. Females, others in room (listening or playing?) 1. Jimmy Stevenson: "I don't even know you, who set it up?" "Harold Sh…set it up." "Ed Shields…session downtown" (Jimmy's gig) "We got five horns we could play." " Let the piano player sit on the edge of the couch." "Paul" "Pirouette" (Shorty Rogers tune, played by Art Pepper and Chet Baker) "Joey" "Charlile" "cookie" 2. Tune and restart "So What" "Let's try this 'Cookie' thing, alright?" (several versions, Nestico, Manne, etc...) Names: "Horace" "Dave" "Marty" "Al" "Joe Michaels (not in room) 3. Others on stairwell. Pete and Horace talking, no drummer. CDII 1. Two simultaneous discussions one mentions "Ronnie/Lonnie", setting up to play and tune talk 2. No bass player but playing "All the things you are" "drummer just cut out on us. 3. "I'm in Riverdale (drums)." "Hey Harold, you guys promise to stay, man (hour and a half round trip)" "That's the way jazz is." "A-flat blues" 4. Tune with bass, piano, trumpet, sax. 5. Talk "We don't need everybody, to hell with 'em, don't don't need the drummer" CDIII 1. Tunes discussed, no drummer, into song with trumpet, bass, piano. "This here" and the same with "Tangerine" or other tune. 2. New song with some scat "Freddy Greenwell" 3. Horace gtr warsm up Tune talk. "Oh it's Roland Kirk, except I don't know he was in there." More talk and tune " I had an operation."

Note 1: Some overlap with Reel 125. (August 7, 1963) CDI 1. bass riffs with sax, piano joins after sax stops. 2. call for Jimmy S. 3. cont'd riffing. "been in Cleveland" 4. "…borrow five dollars from Gene because I don't have any money." "Joe Hunt's in Hawaii…" Door opens and reveals hall mic is on by increase in sound. More clear recording of tape 125 until end. CDII Repeat, picks up after gap on 125 CDII track 2. then overlaps with reel 125 1/2 midsong of 5, 2nd song.

Note 1: CDI 1. Street, room noise with opera. Hallway noise. 2. Smith talking in hallway. Talking to woman "David" 3. more work sounds, saw/construction. 4. hammering 5. sawing and hammering. Smith's voice evident 6. same 7.same (with hammering still, at end) CDII 1. continued with cats 2. male voice in hall 3. Bob addressed DAvid and woman's voice "We can't get out." 4. more loft noise 5. same with distant kids' voices. continues on other tracks through end. CDIII 1. footsteps and kids voices (tv/radio??) 2. more foot and radio noises, hillbilly music 3. loud commercial for 6 o'clock, Sunday, November 3rd. 4. Begins with Kirk song and coversation in rt. channel, ends with Josey jazz series Mingus Pettigord Harles cuts off during Cal Tjader. CDV 1. phone ring Smith talking to woman in ahllway 2. conversatoin cont'd. discussing other resident (Jimmy?) 3. recount of arguemnt with guy 59th street and 6th Avenue. "this is the first white guy I've ever loved. " "She's a Chcago ...jewish man, when I say... I mena hip to everything. 4. "my painting and everything. " "the book" 5. more of same with mention of Pittsburg. "I really thought I was going out of my mind...." 6. Carole returns, phone rings call for Dave, who is in New Jersey. John Howard 7. Ricahrd, Paul, "You're a teacher now." CDVI 1. Smith talking to Carole, and woman. "Cary Grant in the corn field desciption (North by Northwest) 2. talk 3. More talk, photo 4-6: the same, with less and less frequency and volume. CDVII Right channel has radio and streetnoiise, left has loft audio. 1. Smit and Carole talking 2. talk and television, CDVIII Ending of dubbed version of Nights of Cabiria from previous track.

Note 1: CDI 1. commercials Easy Off and Oatmeal. News 2. Topics on radio include Norman Mailer, Kennedy, others, Baldwin, "Go ask a jazz musician comment." Mr. Magoo commercial Tennessee Williams CDII 1. end of show, Kennedy etc.. Jackie. CDIII 1. Paul Green lay WNEW tuning to news. CDIV Same cont'd. CDV 1. Room noise, loft 2. dog near mic, loud CDVI 1. WOR, LJN 1963. Hypnosis. Mention of Dali on 4. CDVII Commercials and telegrams discussion continued on LJN

Note 1: "Spring 1965" Smith's notes suggests content from a soundtrack to Dave's film. Also, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Sonny Rollins. Sound effects by Sam "Leroy" Parkins. Radio content Amazing Randi and Long John Nebel. CDI 1. Bass clarinet, sax, drum with reverb effects. 2. More of the same, Dave also mentioned.More of the same, with talk, Zoot, Gary, Sam mentioned. Multiple takes. 3. More of the same, with Dave mentioned and Zoot then announced 4. Slow ballad, "very very pretty" Announcert" 5. Sped up tape or weird effects on more soundtrack music. Could be a different recrding from track 4. CDII1. Beginningof radio piece on Selma Alabama: "Selma: A Review in Sound" 2. Station tuning 3. Selma doc begins , continues through the end of tape. CDIII 1. Selma documentary continued. Track 5. New contnet with Long John John/Amazing Randi on WBAI Randy is on from 12-5AM. CDV Radio continued. Long John Nebel WNBC sign off says "today, Saturday"

Note 1: Overlap with CDI of previous CD on track 3 only. March 12, 1965. 95.5 WABC-FM "Ten years after the death of Charlie Parker" Live broadcast. Zoot: Yes, at Carnegie Hall. " yardbird Suite announced: Jimmy Smith fine, organist 4. More Al and Zoot with Jimmy Smith tune. CDII 1. Piano, bass, drums, 2 saxes. Live. 2. Lp or otherwise engineered sound 3. Piano sax ballad. 4. different sound for same ensemble .

Note 1: March 31, 1964. Charlley Fox band rehearsal at Jimmy Stevenson's. W Eugene Smith there. CDI 1-4. Music and arranging. Talk. 5. Talk. Extended discussion 6. tune and talk, vocals with song. CDII 1. Overlap with previous cd 2. Tunes and talk 1-4. 5. Talk and mention of Jimmy Stevenson, Hall Overton and Carnegie Hall concert. "but he's supposed to be a very good teacher." 6-7. More tunes and talk. CDIII 1-5. Tunes and talk 6. Vegas talk and money talk for musicians. 7. Talk of the record in terms of current arrangements. CDIV 1. 1-3. Tunes and talk. 4. conversation with/about Jimmy 5. new song with directions CDV More of same with names established Elliot, Eddie, Johnny Joe Charley "wanna go for coffee". 6. Smith on piano. maybe another musician who's not a piano player.

Note 1: 1964. Charles Fox rehearsal and loft sounds. W. Eugene Smith. Jimmy Stevenson. Radio recorded. CDI 1. bass riffing. Bowed bass. People on stiars and entering. Talk. Scheduling. Preparing for rehearsal. 2. Tune and arrangement 3. arranging tune and talk 4. tune and talk CDII 1. footsteps and bad sounds, voices 2. same 3. stairway, footsteps ascending 4. Rock and roll radio nad commercial. Beatles "I want to hold your hand." 5. Door sound and Dave Clark Five. WN?CA news 6. Beatles "All my lovin'" Bobby Bland 7 footsteps and radio cont'd. CDIII 1. Radio "Oh won't you stay..." Door sound 2. W. Eugene Smith talking to someone, cat sounds. 3. Smith and Jimmy Stevenson talking: piano notes and inaudible discussion. 4. Same with other voices. Brief mention of "Charlie Parker" audible 5. Talk "Allison" "April Showers" footsteps and whistling 6. radio Rain, 49 degrees many footsteps "April Showers" Beatles: "Do you want to know a secret" CDIV 1. Radio news and Beatles "She loves you" and then "The way you do the things you do." 2. song "Glad all over" 3. room noise and voices down stairs "Joe (not there)" "I don't recall anybody painting that I know about" (Hallway?)

Note 1: August 8,9,10 or 11, 1963. Jimmy Stevenson, Joe Farrell, others (Sandy Stevenson calls). CDI 1. Trumpet riffs 2. room, feet, door lock voices 3. piano with foottap or metronome, scales 4. "Joe Farrell" arrives "Eddie" "Dave" "Be careful what you talk about, this place is bugged." Familiar tune talk. "Blues in F" 6. Tune with trumpet drums bass piano. "You wanna play tenor, go ahead." "He sounds like Percy Heath." ends during tenor solo. CDII 1. "sounds like Oliver Nelson" 2. Much Talk: Jazz and specific players and style. Sonny and Lin Halliday mentioned. "Joe, try that horn" Joe(y) George, Dave on tenor sax, Phone call. Talking about Vinnie.

Note 1: 1. Midsong piano drums sax, bass. Jimmy Stevenson