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Note 1: Freddie Greenwell/Ronnie Free session. Eugene Smith and assistant. Talking to Schiffer. CDI 1. Sax and drum tune with papers rattling. And cats meowing. Smith talks in room. 2. Cont'd 3. Tune 4. Tune discussion 5. tune with meowing 6. Tune with cat's meowing. 7. **Lots of tune talk, glass of water, third person says Fred Greenwell is always going off into other room. Gene Smith photo talk, "John Whiting" "Pittsburgh" "As from my window" and "Lloyd/Floyd" Phone bill and funny Smith talk.. 7. "I wasn't in the same frame of mind, there" 8. Tune CDII 1. Tune cont'd "John Wayne" new tune 2. Retry tune third voice "C'mon Schiffer, get up" "Dec 3rd, 1952" (reading) Talk about musicians and then tune 3. Tune 4. Restart. 5. Riffs and laughter with humming of tune. 6. riffing and radio 7. drum in one room sax in another, Smith conversation quiet. CDIII 1. Cont'd content sax and drum.

Note 1: Hall Overton's studio, Hall, Ronnie Free, Freddie Greenwell. (?maybe George Syran). CDI 1. Midtune, Sax, bass, drum. "go have breakfast somewhere" "boogie woogie, then we'll eat" 2. Boogie woogie tune. Talk Meade Lux Lewis, Smith in room Piano tune 4. Piano demo and Porgy and Bess "you're only halfway across the channel." 5. "Like someone in love" led by piano. 7** "What time is it?" "about quarter after 7" Smith, Overton, breakfast, piano tuned, "take some pictures" "see you get that fine book" "that's right, you're Smith, I'm Overton" Smith: "Well, now this day is done, I'd better get to work." **JUMPS** new content 6. Ronnie Free and Nehama Hendel "House of the Rising Sun" Ray Charles and Smith lowering the mics talk. Also, about Fred (Greenwell?) 7. Smith fooling with mics "I wann start a fresh tape on this" 8. ***"Gene, my God, don't you know that Gene is a collector of recorders, Gene is a collector, of everything." More conversation, Smith, Ronnie, Nehama. CDII 1. Mics and recorder talk. "Looks like a dentist's chair" "C Flute" Phone call expected, "Well, Lou will take it." TV or radio and playing music on guitar and flute and talking. Smith's records and folk song books. "April 27th, it's a Sunday" and "Cecil Sharp" 3. "The river is wide, I can't get over." song Smith: "Wanna hear it back right now?" 4. New track(after playback, presumably): "come all you fair and tender ladies." 5. Guitar tune and wordless melody 6. Recording talk. John Pankin, Flamenco at the Centre. He calls himself Juan Sastre. Name is Goldberg, I think. 7 tune "I wish I was a red rosy bush in a bank by the sea." [Odetta sang this tune]

Note 1: "1960. Session at Hall Overton's." Hall Overton, Bill Takas, Chris Febbo. Mike/Mic? "Good" Bass, drums, piano. CDI 1. "Dave and I recorded a bunch of those." "Yeah, Dave Young told me." Cat and "Where'd Bobby go?" Tune 2. Tune and "I'm getting tired, very fast." 3. Bass and piano riff into song 4. Riffs and talk. "you're moving that hlaf tone thing back and forth. "See ya, Chris, man. Crazy." 5. Into bass, piano tune. Smith and another in background. 6. "Partch thing really has me going. His is the only experimental thing I've heard that had a kind of compositional wholeness." "...Bobby Brookmeyer about him?" "I was in his studio, I played with his instruments. "Yeah, he and Gerry." Cy Coleman and Lucille Ball talk. Hall leaves? "Well Goodnight G(unther??) "My Christmas before good Friday" .. Bass riffs continue. CDII 1. Piano riffs with drum prsent and non drum precussion near mic. "How are ya, Bob?" 2. Tune: Bass, drum, piano. 3. Piano leading into ballad 4. New tune "Spreading the thing out." 5. Standard tune.