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Note 1: April 24, 1961. CDI 1. Piano move continued. Mover story about woman building house around piano. "This is the second time we've moved this piano." 4. Movers "Well, we've got enough manpower" Rope, clipboard with bills. Sounds from stairs. CDII 1. Piano move continued. Voices distant. "He's gonna pay the charges, anyway... ping pong tables." Movers leaving. Mostly Gene and Carole talk away from mic(s).

Note 1: Spring, 1960. CDI 1. Midsong. Piano, bass, drums, tenor sax. Minimal talk. 2. Piano starts "You (Smith?) the one who does the…" Smith: "I'll help you drink." More quiet talk. 3. More of same and song (cuts off during sax solo) 4. Smith and other. male.

Note 1: 1. Midsong 2. Riffing and talk "Hal" "I'm gonna give Gary" (Break in sound) 3. Tune "like somone in love" quoted. 4. Riffing 5. Fade up of same group, midsong, ends cold. 6. " I wonder if Joe would come out…" grandiose piano with drums. 7. Bass, into a familiar tune. Sound drops out. (Break in sound 8. silence and then garbled room talk. CDII 1. Tune talk with piano and voices. Tape rewind sound. Different pickup at 7:06 (different session?) 2. Song: sax, bass, drum 3. Tune 4. Talk and riffs 5. Riffing into song. Female voice: "C'mon Hal" 6. Begins midsong (could be part of first track session?) CDIII 1. Tune and talk 2. tune, piano bass drums Piano player hums "Hey, why don't we play thta tune you wrote." (piano player wrote it) 3. Playing through tune "That's the chart you use, let's see if I can play it through." 4. Into tune with talk 5. Reworking tune 6. New song with changes spoken and demonstrated. CDIV 1. Tune. Piano, bass, sax, drums 2. Riffing and talk 3. "Like someone in love" 4. Talk "Peter" 5. Tune 6. Talk "It's a nice place you got" (quiet)

Note 1: July 7, 1960. W. Eugene Smith, Ruth Fetske, B. Musicians include Gary/Gerry and Hal/Hall.(Overlaps with Reel 143, CDIII) 1. Midsong: Piano, bass, drum. "Yeah, you should definitely ask him about that, Gary" "He just put that in" 2. Riffing into tune. Talk "Play that thing that you wrote" More tunes and talk. CDII 1. Sped up talk in loft Male and female, Smith and Fetske? Typewriter CDIII 1. More loft with some talk and typing.

Note 1: September 14-15, 1961. W. Eugene Smith, Nehama, Carole (other female assistants) 3 Microphones simultaneously, different locations. CDI 1. Piano in studio, NBC radio/tv, "John Henry" by Woodie Gurthrie record. Female voice in this room. "Come all you cowboys" Smith's voice: "looked in the hall or not" 2. New male voice "why don't you go upstairs and wait..." "want me to take them up there?" Smith talking about Jack Daniels. Phone in piano room rings. Smith: "Now all of those are either window projecte or jazz." 3. Smith: cat pics jazz, Brunehilda. "Carole" "maybe a little box of pictures." Stairsteps. Lot's of activity, drums, couple in hallway, Smith. Loft soundz. CDII 1. stairsteps and conversation. drums and piano pone 2. Smith: talking to cat and working. Phone. CDIII 1. More of everything including added horns, trumpet, sax 2. Same with more dialogue. 3. Camera talk and more music CDIV 1. Loft noise continued News show. "wanna get your car tonight?" 2. Sax and trumpet conitnue. Jay Cameron mentioned. "Body and Soul" film on tv. Someone coming over shortly. Drinking gin.

Note 1: CDI. 1. Monk's music played on sax and piano with background voices. Hallway mic picks up clamoring of footsteps. Smith and cat talking. Knock on door. Keys heard upstairs and footsteps back down. More hallway noise and talking "Back up to Hall Overton's

Note 1: September 13/14, 1961 (Lin Halliday, Smith's notes) CDI 1. Radio interview with WWII and Vietnam talk. POW British soldier? 2. Long John Nebel, different recording. Hypnotist. Mr. W.C. Webster of Bridgeport Connecticut. RKO station identification. 3. Back to war discussion. 4. Gamelan music (recorded, not in loft) 5. Back to cinema. WBAI Dietrich in Black fox as anti war film Program: Film Art with Gideon Bachman. 6. W. Eugene Smith narrative "From the Saigon plant to the Hitachi dock" Strange monologue with strange pitch. 7. Verdi opera Isaac Pinza 1926. CDII 1. Loft noise with occasional cat 2. Sped up play "the Deluge" 3. Robin Hood and the Friar 4. Spoken word piece 11 am/pm 5. Sped up talk show.

Note 1: February (23?), 1964. Construction for inspectors. Smith and Carole, others. Work on Jimmy Stevenson's space, "dismantling". Multiple mics. CDI 1. Loft noise Jimmy Stevenson, "where's Gene?" Talk includes: structural changes to loft, mics and recording, storage, cats, wiring, jazz, George Washington radio show (at end). CDII 1. George Washington radio show cont'd on WOR ("February 23, 1964") 2. Smith and Carole in loft working JFK Oswald's wife on radio. Gene and Jimmy CDIII 1. Loft work and phone call "821 Sixth Avenue" "I'll probably be on the sixth floor most of the rest of the day." Construction with talk about construction. CDIV 1. Joe, Gene, Carole. More construction and talk. Smith puts a nail through his foot. Iodine. Described by Smith, nursed by Carole. CDV 1. More foot talk. Consturction. Scotch. "I don't know, I think it's Friday" Delivery: "I just got a present from Japan, with a radio no less. " Microphone, case with cover. It can record, right from it's own radio. Money talk. Battery talk "Panasonic uses 12..." Jimmy Stevenon present. "Don't tell me all the instructions are in Japanese! CDVI 1. Continued work with similar cast in different rooms. New person enters looking for Gene, who's working downstairs temporarily.

Note 1: February 28, 1964. W Eugene Smith talks with Cop, neighborhood beat police. CDI 1. Cyrano de Bergerac on radio/TV, ends 2. Shell commercial. Channel 5. Total cereal commercial. 3. News: Sheila McCrae, Vietnamese War, Saturn One, first women to run for presidency, Medgar Evers, Atlanta demonstrations, Congo, Forecast 41 degrees,... 4. Sped up sounds Jazz and possible LJN. CDII 1. Room noise, cats, footsteps 2. Sax and drums recorded. and radio in loft, brief talk. CDIII 1. Sped up radio LJN?? 2. In loft, playback of tape at high speed on recorder with regular speed loft noise. Radio in background. Visit with neighborhood beat cop and W. Eugene Smith. $290 rent. Mention of robber, marijuana in floorboards (past). Specific guy. More loft and police talk with photographic inquiry. Clearly familiar with each other and a friendly visit.

Note 1: Session from April 7, 1964 CDI 1. Tune 2. Talk, long with music, drugs and many topics covered. 3. riffing and music discussion. 4. music and talk. CDII 1. music with talk 2. talk 3. talk 4. Talk: Cecil Taylor, Martin Williams, etc…5. Joe doing Brazilian music beat demo. CDIII 1. Talk and Ben Riley mention 2. Door, Gene Smith 3. Brazilian music 4. Full song 5. Talk.

Note 1: CDI. 1. Monk's music played on sax and piano with background voices. Hallway mic picks up clamoring of footsteps. Smith and cat talking. Knock on door. Keys heard upstairs and footsteps back down. More hallway noise and talking "Back up to Hall Overton's

Note 1: December 1963. CDI 1. Midsong. Piano bass drum, voices. Smith interjecting over music 2. Bass solo 3. Back to music in both channels, Smith interrupts again for multiple mic checks. CDII 1. Mic check 2. Normal music 3. Mic checks. 4. Music and Smith 5. Music voices (Paul Bley??) 6. Tune talk.