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Note 1: CD I Jazz songs and conversation. Joey Massters and Hall Overton playing and saying goodnight. Massters at the Towncrest or Congress club. 1. "Time on my Hands" 2. drum solo and "My Little Swede Shoes" fragments 3. Weird discussion of time and space. Long late night talk. CDII. Late night talk continued with some tape interference. CDIII Radio. Frank Lloyd Wright interview. WGBH-FM-Boston, airing on WNYC. 3. includes BBC war content, George Bernard Shaw, more Frank Lloyd Wright and Beethoven's music.

Note 1: 3/11/60. Hall Overton, Paul Bley, Ronnie Free, Freddie Greenwell. W. Eugene Smith 1. Midsong talking. 2. New song "Cherokee" 3. blues with sax added by Greenwell. 4. "These Foolish Things" 5. "Darn that Dream" "Gene, where are the paper towels?"

Note 1: Nehama Hendel, singer; Ronnie Free, drummer. Paul Bley, piano on II. I. Includes short Danny K radio and then female voice in loft asking Ronnie Free about coffee. "East Virginia Blues" "John Henry" "Summertime (scat)" , reference to tape on 3, and several more folk and jazz songs as improvised by Free and Hendel. Ends with classical music on radio. II More radio piano symphony until 4. Beethoven and Back by Vienna Philharmonic announced. QXR Lond Listening Booth 2:30 Sundays . III. sped up broadcast. 2. back to loft on this track and track 4 piano, singer drum and bass, frantic. some talking. and playing "Sunny Side of the Street"

Note 1: February 1960. Ronnie Free, drums; Freddy Greenwell, sax. W. Eugene Smith. CDI. Lots of great talking and working through tunes. "Misty" "Oleo" . 6. "Anyone seen an old Leica around" "there's a few on the table here" "Now remember, you're supposed to stay on this side of the stereo." Don Byas referenced. CDII. Drop out of left side sound suggests a stereo recording of sax and drums. 2. Bird calls by Greenwell 3. "Henry" and the "cow that jumped over the moon." "What's that, Tito Puente?" More music and then Eugene Smith interjects and conducts a sound check: "You can stop now, no matter how inspired you are." Ends with humorous version of the William Tell Overture.

Note 1: Ronnie Free, Sonny Dallas, Don Ferrara, Eugene Smith. (Dudley Watson?) CDI. Great talk: Pot, Max Roach, Birdland, drugs, "24 going on 12" (Free's age) drummers. Smith. "Don" "Dudley" Calling Sal (Mosca), upstairs. Smith photogrphery talk and Sonnny Dallas calling musician. "That little red headed kid playing drums." "Joey Massters, joe Lopes" Willie Thomas. Birdland story. Dud Powell and Half onote talk, including about Lena Horne. CDII. Good talk, continued. Tristano, "Morris running errands for me" Piano: "This is Dick Cary's" "Joe, left about ten minutes ago." "I met him downstairs" (Freddy Greenwell) "Do you know where Joey lives next door?" Other lofts. Lennie Tristano. Pet's place. "never a scene, just go play."CDIII talk continued. Car story. Sonny. Souoth Carolina, Sonny's horn. "joey just got home and his wife isn't feeling well. Talking about Smith's loft. . Dudley and Ron there. "Don Ferrara's got a pretty good wig, eh Gene?" , going out for beer. "put anohter pill in the slot. CDIV: more talking Joey playing piano. Ronnie. NO playing.