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Note 1: Nehama Hendel, singer; Smith, (Wayne, Tommy, Pending (cat)?) CDI 1. Poetry: "The Lament of the Border Widow" Ballad 2. Jumps to radio monologue. Book talk. 3. "Let's turn it over to Alfred Karen." Malcolm County" 4. Talk includes salinger, Bellow, Bergeli, Mailer, Cheever. and on spoken word. CDII 1. piano and male, female conversation "about time we got a system around here of some kind." , (cuts to Nehama) 2. Nehama with drums "John Hardy" "Nobobdy loves you when you're down and out." "Motherless child" "I'm on my way" 3. new song, cowbell tree percussion CDIII 1. 2 male voices convesation with Nehama. "Going to California" "Glory Glory Hallelujah" 2. Talk... "I can't hear ya, I got earphones on." "What's erratic, by the way, I don't know the meaning of the word." CDIV 1. Male folk singer with gtr. big applause 2. more applasue and oration. 3. silence to Nehaa fragment with gtr, some mass applause. "Train I ride" duet male, female 5. New radio content ends quick.

Note 1: Nehama Hendel, singer;Smith, Wayne, Tommy, Pending (cat) CDI 1. Nehama talking "John and Alan Lomax and Charlie and Ruth Seeger. Smith and Nehaman "John Henry" lyrics discussion. Smith sings. Song book, song titles. 2. Copying lyrics. "Frankie and Albert, wonderful recording of that." Talking and singing then "Gene, Gene, turn it down." 3. Nehama sings and plays guitar. 4. Slowly riffing guitar 5. Same 6. "Goodnight Wayne" "Listen Tommy, when will ..come pickup." Smith Nehama and others. CDII 1. Smith seting levels for song, East Virginia Blues 2. "Long Lonesome Road" " The River from Liverpool" "Santy Anno" 5. Fragment: "House of the Rising Sun" 6. Tune &. Spanish song (cuts off) 8. Radio broadcast, sped up, on class. CDIII Radio cont'd US educational system 2. Same WNYC NY& 11(time?) MBS WNYC 3. other program comedy referenced Freud 4. Bergan Evans from Splen word label WNYC martn Bush and Stravinsky Pastoral, tomrowwow Margaret Mead. Show is "While the city sleeps."

Note 1: W. Eugene Smith and Carole Thomas. CDI 1. Smith and Carole looking for numbers for Life Editorial or special Newsroom number. Setting mics with Carole. "Gene, do you have to speak to Thompson and only Thompson to get permission?" "If I can't get Thompson, I'll try George Hunt." Westchester Phonebook, Andrew Highschool Race riot story "where is Alabama in relationship to NorthCarolina? Birmingham riot. "Today's Sunday" Warren Young, Mathew Genet, Phillip Kunhardt 3. Dialing Kunhardt "Gene, it's on 6th Ave and 27th Street" "try Earl Brown" "Lee Eitinto Sam Welles, Gjon MIli, if I can get that son of a bitch..." 4. Smith calls Gjon Mili again, no answer. marion McPhail look up Warren G. Young but it's the wrong number. 5. More good talk. Grandfather..."he's one of the reasons I hate money so much." "I'm a Cherokee" More Smith and Carole banter. Very sweet. CDII 1. Could be other mic from side More phone calls and the same talk, but ending sooner

Note 1: W. Eugene Smith and Carole Thomas, marked PRIVATE. Loft sounds, personal moments, and tv/radio. CDI 1. WCBS with Smith changing channels and turning up opera. In bed with Carole 2. Quiet talk and sounds from couple 3. "More of the same "Strauss" opera announced on WBAI Bartok's concerto for orchestra 4. Bartok and bedroom noises 5. Street noise and quiet 6. Bartok 7. Bartok until end CDII 1. Bartok cont'd then Stravinsky Festival of 1962 News report Edward P. Morgan and JFK, Nassau Pact, ...2. News Cont'd multiple topics, New York newspaper strike. 3. WBAI con'td CDIII (Street noise throughout) 1. Isaac Batheshevitz Singer story cont'd 2. con'td with Smith and Carole water talk and "night sounds on WBAI" Smith talking under jazz vibes on radio 3. Smith and Carole talking with more audible clarity (quarter to one) 4. Baseball from announcer with english accent and French pop 5. More radio, sophisticated audio collage 6. Audio collage cont'd CDIV 1. Gospel con'td as part of late night collage, Night sounds with Smith humming in background. 2. More Caroloe and TS Eliot "Alfred J. Prufrock"

Note 1: CDI radio takler with room loft noise (Dylan Thomas content) 2. Some room noise, knocking and Smith and male talking briefly. Piano in other room, off mic. 3. Typing and radio show, Smith's humming. 4. DR. Leo F. Cook on radio 5. WBAI program ends. 6. Smith talking to to others in loft. Drawings, If I owe anybody a quarter Moe talk 7. Smith on photography and other subjects. Could be important. CDII 1. cont'd Smith talking and cat content. 2. Woman and child "This is Carole." Tape recording jumps to a new section. Piano in other room continues or restarts. 3. loft noise with less activity 4. less audio content from same. CDIII 1. TV and room noise, book talk door and Smith hummin 2. War of the Worlds 3. Cont'd 4. Orson Welles announcing his show 5. Jazz radio and room noise 6. Same 7 Same CDIV 1. Radio jazz with Smith humming and working. 2. Moe of same with smith cursing and stomping around towards end of tape 3. Same type of content 4. Same with some vocalizations and like content.

Note 1: Bobby, piano; Gary Hawkins? Session CDI 1. Mid riffs of drum and piano, hallway step sounds. 2. 2 males in stairway talking. "Eddie L_, Gary" 3. Smith talking to new arrivals and Carole giggling Photo talk in darkroom (multiple mics?) 4. Smith and Carole talk and "That's Bobby" (piano) 5. Intimate moments on tape 6. More with music sounds of piano and sax from other room 7. similar with "Sweet Georgia Brown" in background from other loft room. CDII 1. Cont'd with Musician talk 2. new tune 3. Banter and darkroom water sound 4. Tune 5. Banter, piano and sax. Stair noise and knocking "Lou" (Draper?) 6. Names? Zoot, C#?? 7. Water noise in darkroom and sounds from the left of the loft CDIII 1. Water in darkroom and brief footsteps.

Note 1: January 1960. Hall Overton rehearsing Sonata for Viola and Piano with Walter Trampler, Lucy Greene, and maybe Charles McCracken (Cello on other side of record). 1. no content 2. Rehearsal and talk 3. music 4. Arrangement talk, Hall Overton introduction 5. "Walter" and more direction by Overton 5. Play and arrange 6. Playing, as tape ends

Note 1: (January) 1960 Hall Overton rehearsing Sonata for Viola and Piano with Walter Trampler and Lucy Greene (Piano). 1. Tune talk and tuning the piano and run through of piece 2. Discussion and direction 3. rehearsal 4. Same 5. Talk and rehearsal. 6. More of the same, perhaps Overton on piano. CDII 1. Cont'd rehearsal with more directed arranging and direction 2. "the work we did the other night really set that pretty well.3. Break and discussion 4. demo and talk 5. continues, working through one passage at a time.

Note 1: February (or March) 1961. Long John Nebel radio show with "producers of 'The Connection'" CDI 1. Living Theater at 15th Street and 6th Avenue. Rudy and Frankie from the Archive Film Society and Judy and Joy,. Telegrams, censorship question. 2. Commercials 3. acting talk vignettes 4. Talking about The Connection 5. Continued film talk and 1961 films 6. Film talk continues CDII 1. toupee story and avant garde theatre 2. Connection and other topics 3. Song "Careless" (New content) 4. Loft and street noise, darkroom water, Smith and Carole working, with cat in room. 5. silence and Smith/Carole content in darkroom Lens talk 6. Dialogue and darkroom work 7. Same with less talk 8. drum riffs in background with sax and Smith now typing. CDIII 1. Darkroom sounds and distant voices, street noise. 2. drum riffs again audible.

Note 1: "Hall Overton Symphony for strings. #115 Hall Overton symphony for strings finished that side and turned over such things as Camus? Devil and Daniel Webster Part of Interview with Max Eastman" CDI 1. Symphony music and applause with different movements until 5. English drama via BBC CDII 1. BBC British drama cont'd until 5 and then political radio talk and news 6. Talk radio cont'd. CDIII 1. Japan content on Ed Sullivan Show 2. Ends with song (Eartha Kitt) 3. Earth Kitt content 4. Ed Sullivan and tap dancers with piano 5. tie jokes 6. Eartha Kitt Turkish song 7. Eartha talks about travel and Israel 8. Cuts to song 9. Tap dancing 10. Alfred Hitchcock, Ban commercial 11. Buffrin commercial 12. drama with Hitchcock. (Cuts) to loft Piano CDV 1. End of Devil and Daniel Webster, back to Long John nebel, Max Eastman content 2. Max Eastman interview cont'd Mentions Freud, Hemmingway, Chopin

Note 1: March 26, 1960. Zoot Sims, sax; Bill Potts, piano; Ronnie Free, drums. 1. Midsong, called changes. Messy 2. riffs and talk. "Where did that piano come from, is that from Hall's?" "Why didn't he come in here when he heard the music?" "Worried Blues" "Sunday, you played...Bob" Guitar strummed once weird Smith interaction. 3. (Jumps) Midsong. Piano, sax, drums some talk during tune 4. New tune, "let's play another chorus of that." 5. Same tune 6. Minor blues "water in here" 7. short talk with "Zoot" 8 tune 9 Tune talk and "let's try 'I got rhythm'" 10. Tune with strange free jazz style end.*** 11. Good Zoot Sims blues improvisation on sax.

Note 1: December 26, 1959. W. Eugene Smith. "Hall (Overton) at Dave's." Sax, trumpet, bass, drum. 1. Midsong Good solos and quiet talk 2. Smith talks, coffee, rum, eggs and bacon (drops out to silence) "Am I blue" "Wanna play that?" 3. Tune ends midsong.

Note 1: 1960. Bob Brookmeyer, Jimmy Raney at Hall Overton's. Smith and photo assistants(?) CDI 1. Midsong, piano, bass, drums, guitar, trombone. 2. Talk: "Did you hear the rumor that they're trying to make a musical out of 'The Wall' , by John Hersey? "Yeah, it's the story of the Warsaw ghetto in Nazi Germany." Kennedy and Nixon. Randy" leaves. Piano riffs. as people leave. 4. "Dave McKenna showed me that." Tune and talk Wester style music with Guitar and narration. ***5. Tromone starts tune 6. Talk, heating and other. CDII 1. Smith talking Home life and picture talk 2. Loft sounds 3. Door knowcks or hammering Mahcine noise 4. Room and street noise. 5. Same 6. Piano in other room "How did you make out there, Jim?" 7. Phone and talk. Cat, "Looking for a spoon" more phone. CDIII 1. Cont'd with piano in other room "I'll be back Gene" 2. Smith on phone, creaky floorboard. 3. "Canny Crito" Food talk. 4. Talk cont'd 5. Room noise 6. Phone rigns unanswered and session or stereo starts in other room 7. Same.

Note 1: Session with Bob Brookmeyer and Jimmy Giuffre. CDI 1. Weird radio and banter, 2. Dixieland style jazz trombone, bass, drum clarinet piano guitar "Bob" and tune talk. Calling changes. CDII 1. Guitar plays and some room vox and riffs with multiple horn players. 2. Jumps to ballad with b,d,p,sax, and room talk. trails off during trombone solo