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Note 1: January, 1964. Day or two after Peyote Session Jimmy Stevenson, Warren Bernhardt, Judy, W. Eugene Smith. CDI Jimmy and Judy talking very quietly. CDII 1. cotinued conversation. 2. "Is there a place around here?" (Piano so loud showing Smith has raised mic levels to the max) 3. Jimmy and Judy leave. Loft noise, radio, and Smith making noise. Jimmy knocking on Jimmy's door. CDIII 1. More room noise, tv, Smith noise parcel delivery 2. bass tuning and warming up. Warren and Jimmy coversation about many things including Peyote night, Judy, loft musicians, calling Lex and others, TS Eliot Wasteland quoted by Bernhardt. Playing a Denny Zeitlin tune. 3. repeat 4. Stop and talk. A woman joins coversation 5. Moe talk, music based. 6. tune 7. talk 8. new tune. CDIV 1. Jimmy Stevenson playing with Warren Bernhardt. A tune. 2. Bernhardt talking about Bill Evans. 3. More talki, 4. tune talk and playing. 5. More talk: "I like that direction we were going in the other day..." 6. Tune 7. tune talk 8. Tune cuts off CDIV 1. Stevenson and Bernhardt duet continued. 2. Talk. Piano: "If this piano were a voice it'd be just about perect in ? chord, (Bartok piano concierto)" Pot. Names "Laurel Ann Chastain" or Lara Lynn" 3. song, trails off CDV 1. song cont'd "You know "Elsa" that's anohter one he wrote." Knocking at door. 2. Bill Evans talk by Bernhardt, who studies with him. 3. Woman in room to WB "You're quitting smoking' More Bill Evans talk.

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