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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