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Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CDI 1. Midsong, loft, then talk: "If I fall asleep, say something." Piano riffs, talk includes mention of Jackie Gleason. 2. riffs and talk, cont'd, mention of "Lin Halliday" "he might be around here" and tune talk with riffs. 3. Talk and tunes mentioned: "Play something real pretty and nice" "Do you know 'Misty'?" "Wanna do blues...?" "Do you know any bebop?" "Melancholy Baby" "not bebop it's Dixieland" "'I love Paris', how about that?" "You know 'Stablemates'? Let's do that." Changes and chords discussed by Stevenson and pianist. "Play the goddamned blues,...(expletive) all that hard (expletive)." 4. piano leads into tune: piano, bass, drums, sax. with some talk at end 5. tune talk 6 new tune with same players. CDII 1. piano slow tune and talk at bass solo then talk 2. riffs and tune talk 3. talk with radio/LP music in background, into tune 4. INto tune, medium slow, new section and then talk "I can't even touch it man, look at my hands. I got blisters all over my fingers. (drums from other room) 5. Multiple mics. horns in right channel then piano and talk leading into new tune with Radio in loft and talk about playing in loft the following day/night. 6. cont'd talk: "Hey look Jimmy, I'll see you tomorrow at 2 o'clock or whenever I wake up." Other mic, footsteps, descending and music talk. Music for LP or radio in loft, talk on stairs and one person knocks on Smith's door and asks how to unlock the door. covnersation with musicians on stairwell. (door is locked to get out, downstairs). ***More talk on stairwell with Stevenson, possibly Overton?? and Fred Greenwell?. Stevenson organizing a jam session. **Discussion of loft acoustics. CDIII 1. cont'd conversation, parking talk, and logistics of loft room. "you're just getting up" Plannin on sleepin in til about 2 o'clock in the afternoon." Talk about "Gin"? Other door and footsteps register in other mic. 2. Stevenson discussing need for neatness in loft, Lin Halliday, and jam sessions.;

Note 1: "Blank."; Note 2: CDI 1. midsong, sax, piano, bass drum, Good sound, good session, brief dropout and then back to piano solo, , bass solo (second audio dropout) 2. cont'd at bass solo, with piano comp, voices under solo, piano solo then riffs with quiet talk "I'm going to your home town, you know." (Jumps to conversation on stairs) Other voces 3. cont'd "Eddie" 4. Jumps to radio, English accents: Cephalus and Socrates talking with other figures (drama/fiction) on WBAI 5. cont'd philosophical discussion 6. cont'd 7. cont'd CDII 1. WBAI and ambient loft mississippi interviews and docuemntary radio about Sunflower County Farm (prison) 2. cont'd, with overview on Mississippi Delta Documentary: "The Delta Negro" and back to contnet 3. "the Cotton Sack Affair" and other commentary, interview 4. cont'd, 4. cont'd accounts and a blues song 6. working conditions, cont'd 7. cont'd 8. cont'd 9. cont'd with labor and schools, and heat 10. narrator on issues and migration north 11. cont'd, with song and narration, Part One of Mississippi Delta from August 1963, Dale Minor for Pacifica Radio 12. WBAI call for sponsorship and new show, serial for radio by Bruce Stewart, "The Feathered Flag" 13. cont'd 14. cont'd, CDIII 1. cont'd WBAI "The Reathered Fly" (part of Day of the Gallant) 2. cont'd 3. cont'd 4. ends, produced for BBC on WBAI, tomorrow, part four 5. cont'd, Jumps to interview part of Forrestry and Inmate Rehabilitation program. Touches on drug addiction and treatment versus punishment as a model for rehabilitation cont'd -14. Then credits: Art Woadsworth, Mitchell Hardy, narrator. Then to Richard Yardumian, Passagaglia Recitative and Fugue with John Pennink -15. CDIV 1. New City pannong, theorhetical discussion with two English voices (BBC produced) -7. Jumps to discussion on child education -10. Jumps to narrator, Elements of My Philosophy of Education, Part 2: Schools Under Pressure. 11:11 (time) and 11. cont'd with piano and soproano song, from LP, Foxgloves, Michael Head Jennifer Vivian, then Trio in C Major John Fronsecs, ends midsong. CDV 1. cont'd classical piece on WBAI, Ballet Suite for the Emperor's New Clothes, Saxon State Orchestra 2. cont'd -7. Beethoven Symphony Four in B flat, Op 60 with BBC Orchestra, Conductor, Arturo Toscanini -11. The Mississippi Delta, Part II, Beginning, speech for Jackson Mississippi, and recorded documentary audio, from Greenwood. CDVI 1. cont'd Mississippi, doc, Pacifica radio for WBAI, content: releasing prisoners, bonds dynamic, group song 2. cont'd with interview footage, Greenwood voting registration dynamic, interview and narration. ;

Note 1: "One side: Mic Test with Several mics: DM104 Altec Freeman Turner Etc. Both Sides Track 2 only. One Brief nigh marish out burst by carolt. 2nd side: Some growling and mumbling and mooing of cats - (Noisy) Dec 1963"; Note 2: CDI 1. Static, ambient loft/street. Putter. Mic sounds and meows. 2. cont'd, Smiht working in loft 3. cont'd with mic tapmper 4. cont'd 5 cont'd 6. cat meowing, ambient cont'd 7. cat meow and ambient 8. more quiet cont'd 9. cont'd 10. cont'd CDII 1. piano solo with repeating chords ***??? 2. wierd sound, elctric. PIano cont'd, dropout 3. cont'd with better sound 4. talk at wrong speed, Smith's voice mentions Freeman mic 5. pause and restart, fluctuation of sound 6. piano and freeman mic 7. cont'd with piano and Smith's voice "This is now the Altec mic" 8. DM 104 mic and "back to the freeman", cont'd. ;

Note 1: "4 track. 1960. Seems some overlapping at least on Uher. But has part of main conversation with Pat about things. Also background tapes of Nahama, Phil, Bill, - Prison songs, Jazz (must be another tape, also???)"; Note 2: CDI 1. ambient loft and door sounds, with ambient music form radio/tv? And Pageboy, cat sounds, buzz. 2. cont'd, high pitched female voice talking with Smth 3. Smith talking, with woman 4. cont'd 5-7. cont'd, then with jazz in loft 8. More talk 9. buzz and talk, loft CDII 1. Pageboy, talk cont'd Smith: "Well I haven't had fifteen cents in my pocket for two or three weeks, oh well." 2. cont'd with Smith talking 3. female voice reciting on LP/radio Dylan Thomas peoms Do not go gentle in to that good night, Eye of the fisherman, others -13. CDIII 1. cont'd, loft with LP/radio poetry 2. cont'd 3. cont'd 4. Recoord stops and Smith talking with person coming in 5. cont'd 6. cont'd 7. cont'd 8. "nobody knows the troubles I've seen" 9. Smith talking at end with child and piano 10. Smith playing and singing 11. drop out and resumes with better sound quality. Traffic audible and Smith Sining and some singing with young woman (same as previous CD) with a high pitched voice CDIV 1. cont'd clearer talk, woman:"if he comes home and I'm not there" and more talk with Smith and woman. Smith sings a song fragment. 2. cont'd acapella and Smith's blues with discussion 3. cont'd discussion including Khrushchev's speeches. Smith's poetic rambling. 4. Smith cont'd and conversation inlcuidng work talk CDV 1. cont'd loft footsteps, and Smith and woman takling, cont'd. "sick" 2. cont'd food talk 3. knock "Fred, is anybody there?" no answer 4. "*** corner diner on Broadway and 29th. directions and talk with Phil, who's been working there. , Nehama singing John Henry 5. cont'd, with song and talk 6. cont'd 7. cont'd with "What time is it?" "4AM" 8. cont'd, 9. Phil and Smith talking 10. Nehama singing with Smith talking. 11. cont'd, Harold Feinstein, supposed to arrive before morning, but doubtful. 12. Nehama sings and plays. 13. cont'd 14. House of the Rising Sun by Nehama CDVI 1. cont'd Nehama singing. New song Smith's voice then Way down in the Mississippi Valley song by nehama 2. jumps to female voce and loft putter 3. Begins playback of loud jam session played by Smith in loft midsong (on another tape player). Talk by Smith: Freddie Redd in loft "what the hell that is, he came up here with Freddie Redd one night" . "You were eating lunch when I arrived?" "First food I had all day" 4. cont'd, "Waiting I guess for Gary to come home" "Stopped to see Hall for a minute" story. Dave Youngs place to open..." "staked out where all my pictures are" and "Phil, you've got things to do tomorrow, you better go, boy." "Is it 2:30am already, I haven't even eaten yet." talk and piano upstairs hummming and steps on stairs, Puerto Rican demonstration day the following day to be photographed or attended by Phil. CDVII 1. cont'd, voices down stairwell, Hall's voice? Smith saying ogood night to PHil Dante. and "Come on now Pat, you've got to fight it" Serious addiction talk. 2. ***Smith war wound story Steps on stairs, Phil Dante leaving. 3. Smith on David X. Young 4. Dante taking food order for delivery/take out. "This is 821, right?" 5. loud music on tape 6. different tape then turned off. 7. Smith talking and hot water and coffee mention 8. Smith's drug use, coy: opium, alcohol. Bellevue, greatest strength, to laugh at self. Food delivered. 9. medical bills, and war wound lessons, smoking and addiction*** 10. cont'd 11. Hall Overton, about. Town Hall Monk concert. Monk, Seattle, Ray Charles, Freddie Greenwell. *** 12. Smith looking for old blues record and "that boy upstairs sticks close to his piano, doesn't he?" 13. Blues record played (call and response field holler) "Ray Charles" as subject and talk on LP simultaneously. ;