Recording test tones

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Here we go. Co 62290, no title, take one"

Davis: "Hey Wynton, after Cannonball, you play again and then we'll come in and end it."

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 1 - false start)

Studio chatter

Davis: "It was too fast."

Townsend: "Miles, where are you gonna work now?"

Davis: "Right here."

Townsend: "Okay, 'cause if you move back we don't get you. You were right when you played before."

Davis: "When I play it I'm gonna raise my horn a little bit. Can I move this down a little bit?"

Townsend: "It's against company policy to move a microphone...ha ha ha. Here we go. Ready? Number two."

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 2 - incomplete)

Studio chatter (Davis and Coltrane rehearsing)

Townsend: "take three"

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 3 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Hey look, Wynton, don't play no chord goin' in to A-flat."

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 4 - false start)

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (take 4)

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Yeah... You wanna hear it, Miles?"

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Here we go, this is insert one, take one."

Chambers: "Last four bars."

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (piano solo insert - false start)

Studio chatter

Davis: "No, no, wait a minute, it's the last twelve bars."

Freddie Freeloader (M. Davis) (piano solo insert)

Studio chatter

Davis: "All right?"

Townsend: "Yeah."

Davis: "Let's hear a little bit of it."

Townsend: "Right"

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Here we go."

Davis: "Wait a minute!"

Townsend: "Co 62291, take one."

Davis: "Wait one minute."

Adderley: "One short minute."

Townsend: "Number two, take one."

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 1 - false start)

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Start again, please"

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 1 - incomplete)

Townsend interrupts: "hold it"

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Sorry. Listen, we gotta watch it because it, the, ah, there's noises all the way through this. This is so quiet to begin with, and every click... Watch the snare too, we're pickin' up some of the vibrations on it."

Davis: "Well that goes with it. All that goes with it."

Townsend: "All right. Not, not, not all the other noises, though. Take two."

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 2 - false start)

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 2 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Start again."

Adderley: "When the horns..."

Townsend: "Here we go, Miles. Take three"

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 3 - false start)

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 3 - false start)

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 3 - false start)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Take it again"

So What (M. Davis-G. Evans) (take 3)

Studio chatter

Adderley sings "with a song in my heart" and Chambers sings the closing bar of the bass line.

Davis: "How's that, Irving?"

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Just you four guys on this, right Miles?"

Davis: "Five..." Chambers tuning. "No, why don't you play?"

Townsend: "CO 62292, number three, take one"

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 1 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Evans: "We better do that again. "

Davis: "Last four bars, but then you repeat it."

Evans: "Oh, do it twice?"

Davis: "So it's eight"

Townsend: "Take two"

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 2 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Use both hands, Jimmy."

Townsend: "Okay? Number three"

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 3 - false start)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Try it again, Billy. One, two, three, four."

Evans: "We just do that four?"

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 3 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "That's the idea, Irving."

Evans: "...he stays the same as you."

Townsend: "Take four"

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 4 - false start)

Townsend: Chambers' bass wobbles and Townsend interrupts with "Sorry, Paul."

Studio chatter

Townsend: "It's our fault"

Davis: "No it isn't. No, I don't believe that."

Townsend: "What'd you say?"

Davis: "I don't believe that."

Townsend: "It was a little static up here. Go ahead."

Blue in Green (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 5)

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Beautiful, beautiful."

Studio chatter

Townsend: "Okay, Miles. Co 62293 take one"

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 1)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Play that, Irving"

Townsend: "Nice, Miles."

Townsend: "Take two"

Davis: "Wait a minute, Irving, Wait." (to Adderley): "When you raise up off the stool, man, you get... Oh, yeah."

Davis: (to Townsend) "You know your floor squeaks, y'know? Know what I mean? Can you hear me?"

Townsend: "Yeah!"

Davis: "Let's go"

Adderley: "Surface Noise... that's part of the tune, man"

Evans: "Surf-ass noise"

Townsend: "Here we go, take two"

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 2 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Start over again."

Chambers: "I'm sorry"

Townsend: "Ready? Three"

Davis: "Here you go, Paul"

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 3 - incompelte)

Studio chatter

Davis: "Can we start, keep on, Irving?"

Townsend: "Let's do one more."

Davis: "Okay. Ready?"

Townsend: "Yeah, take four"

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 4 -incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "We'll try it again, Irving."

Townsend: "Ready? Take five, Miles."

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 5 - incomplete)

Studio chatter

Davis: "You're not watching, Bill."

Evans: "I know, sorry"

Davis: "Try it again, Irving."

Townsend: "Right. Six"

Flamenco Sketches (M. Davis-B. Evans) (take 6)

Studio chatter

Davis: "That's terrible, Irving"

Townsend: "Don't worry about it."

Studio chatter

Townsend: "CO 62294, number two, take one"

All Blues (M. Davis) (take 1 - false start)

Studio chatter

Chambers: "Let's start over again, sorry"

Davis: "Bill will start it off, you just come in. Ready? One two three, one two three..."

All Blues (M. Davis) (take 1)

Studio chatter

Adderley: "Whew!"

Chambers: (panting) "Damn, that's a hard mother"