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Note 1: 9/21/1960 Lin Halliday, sax; Lou Orensteen, sax; Warren Fitzgerald, trumpet, Ronnie Free, drums; Hal Bigler, bass. 1. Radio song, female voice "I wanna be thrilled" interrupted by 2. Midsong: Trumpet, drum, guitar, sax, bass. 3. Same song with volume change after dropout 4. Bass and trumpet with talking. "Ronnie?" "You know Jimmy" "...way to get in touch with him?" "You could get in touch with Sonny" "Too late, somebody else" "Somewhere Over The Rainbow's all it is" 5. (Sonny Rollins tune) 6. drums start song then group, cuts out midsong 7. Back to (same) radio song then repetition of tracks 2 and 3 on 8 and 9.

Note 1: September 21, 1960. Radio broadcast midsong "Ornette Coleman along with Don cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins on drums." Billy Whitfield, guest radio host. Then Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross "Everybody's Boppin'" , cuts to John Coltrane, Donald Byrd, Red Garland.

Note 1: December 1959 or January 1960. Steve Lacy, sax; guitar, bass, drum, piano. Bill? Zoot Sims? CDI 1. Midsong. Great sax, with bass drum piano. "What'd you stop for?" "You changed the territory." "I Got Rhythm" "Bill" 2. Good tune and talk "Steve Lacy" and quiet talk. 3. Song with "You don't' take a break for a couple of minutes" "C'mon, take a break at least, get myself together 'cause I still wanna play." 4. Saxophone exercises and talk "beautiful singer...I don't know she sounded pretty though." "make your own patterns by just tuning the picture out." "...got another tune to do." song fades on tape as it begins. CDII 1. song obscured by tape condition 2. midtrack song Piano, bass, drum sax, guitar. then "Oh yes, I'm gonna go home again." " Avalon, you know Avalon? You know that?" "Anybody get some coffee?" 3,4,5, more songs and talk. Sound of cork popping.

Note 1: Trumpet, piano, bass, drums, saxes. CDI 1. Sped up talk into midsong. Talking about next song. Humming melody of next tune. 2. Tune, good playing. Same tune talk about: 3. Drum leads into another good tune with trumpet solo. "Gerry" or "Jerry" addressed. "It could happen to you" 4. Group plays tune together, with several horns. Tape ends before song. CDII 1. More playing with lots of background voices. Good music and piano. "Autumn Leaves" 2. Gentler tune, ends with applause 3. Many instruments warm up into tune. Trails off before song gets going.

Note 1: Warren Fitzgerald, Manny Duran, trumpet; Henry Grimes, bass; Gary Hawkins, drums; Freddy Greenwell, sax.

Note 1: Summer 1959. Joey Massters and Buddy Blacklock on piano. Gary Hawkins on drums. CDI. 1. Lots of dialogue. Names mentioned (there): Joe, Chuck, Gary, Ed.Names mentioned, (not there): Manny?, Sonny?, Dave Young, Buddy Berlin (Albequerque), Gene Galloway (gig), Sal Salvador (gig) . W. Eugene Smith voice and evidence of changing sound levels on recorder. End of session talk about next session, gigs past present and future. 2. song with bass drums piano. 3. Bass, piano, and drums join 4. Monk tune? 5. Talk: "fatigued" "Pell Mell, why, because they're mild" "get the tape going" "What's the next one, Henry?" "There you go, get your picture took" 6. Song 7. Piano: "squeaky pedal" Pianist working through tune and talking. "Old Joe from where?" "One little twister there straightened me out" "just a pictoral one" (Smith) "Can we have a little bit of that, Gene?" CDII 1. Dave McKenna at piano. Classical and spare with barrelhouse blue flourish. Joined by second pianist and other voice "Shit, hey don't lose that." 2. More barrelhouse piano in response to comment 2 Pianos playing and discussing. "tape's rolling" "beer?" W. Eugene Smith talking during "St. James Infirmary" and "China Boy" 3. Piano plays until tape end.

Note 1: August 1961. Lin Halliday, sax; Warren Fitzgerald, trumpet; Manny Duran, trumpet; others. CDI 1. Midsong with several solos. Long song. "Let's play some tunes, like, uh, more conducive to relaxing." "get together and just swing" Working out tune. 2. Snapping out rhythm into tune. Trombone in mix. "If __ wants to come play..." CDII (W. Eugene Smith adjusting recording volume for conversation) 1. "Straight street" "Don't remind Halliday of that one, man." "Anybody got a rag, look what you did man." "Kids, now" (Jimmy spilled something on the piano) "Fred" "Warren" 2. "Manny" "Warren" More music talk and talk about how the piano keys are sticky because Jimmy spilled something on them. Rag, Hall or Paul, Lin. " No, I just wanted to change something on the scores real quick." More talking until 3. Tune.