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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Apr 22, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

Pledge Drive Show! New jazz releases, the Specialty record label. pledge.WPRB.com

Pledge Drive

pledge.WPRB.com

12:00 PM		Pat Martino Baiyina Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) Fantasy Records 1989
12:12 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:23 PM		Mike Boone Quintet Jomol's Ladder (Live) Asynchronization Party Trrcollective 2022
12:32 PM		Anna Gréta Nightjar in the Northern Sky Nightjar in the Northern Sky ACT Music 2021
12:35 PM		Night Is Alive Blue and Sentimental (feat. Lonnie Plaxico) Old New Borrowed & Blue Night Is Alive LLC 2021
12:41 PM		Catherine Russell Blue and Sentimental Send For Me Dot Time Records 2022
12:51 PM		Charnett Moffett Lonely Woman Spirit of Sound Motema Music, LLC 2013
12:58 PM		Charnett Moffett Freedom Swing (feat. Stanley Jordan, Jeff "Tain" Watts & Pharoah Sanders) Music from Our Soul Motema Music, LLC 2017
1:00 PM		Charnett Moffett Freedom Swing (feat. Jeff "Tain" Watts, Stanley Jordan & Pharoah Sanders) Music from Our Soul Motema 2017
1:19 PM		Charnett Moffett We Are Here to Play (feat. Jeff "Tain" Watts, Stanley Jordan & Pharoah Sanders) Music from Our Soul Motema 2017
1:19 PM		Charnett Moffett Parade Planet Home Evidence
1:20 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa's Hero Trio Give It All You Got Animal Crossing
1:26 PM		Alexa Tarantino The Firefly Code Firefly Posi-Tone Records 2021
1:32 PM		Gilad Hekselman Fast Moving Century (feat. Shai Maestro & Eric Harland) Far Star Edition Records 2022
1:45 PM		Brad Turner Quartet Jump Up (feat. Seamus Blake) Jump Up (feat. Seamus Blake) Cellar Live 2019
1:56 PM		Tony Malaby’s Sabino Scratch The Horse The Cave of Winds Pyroclastic Records 2021
2:11 PM		Roy Milton & His Solid Senders Thrill Me The Specialty Story 1947 Specialty
2:19 PM		Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers The Honeydripper Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Fantasy Records 1990
2:19 PM		Percy Mayfield Please Send Me Someone to Love The Voice Within: The Specialty Singles 1950-55 Cherry Red Records 1950
2:46 PM		Joe Liggins & His Honeydrippers Pink Champagne Joe Liggins & The Honeydrippers Fantasy Records 1990
2:46 PM		Lloyd Price Lawdy Miss Clawdy The Specialty Story 1952 Specialty 2007
2:46 PM		Mercy Dee One Room Country Shack The Specialty Story 1953 Specialty
2:46 PM		Guitar Slim The Things That I Used to Do Sufferin' Mind Fantasy Records 1991
2:46 PM		John Lee Hooker I'm Mad The Specialty Story 1954 Specialty
2:47 PM		Clifton Chenier Squeeze-Box Boogie The Specialty Story 1955 Specialty
2:48 PM		Little Richard Long Tall Sally (The Thing) Here's Little Richard (Deluxe Edition) Craft Recordings 2017
2:49 PM		Little Richard Lucille Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years Specialty Records 2015
2:50 PM		Little Richard Good Golly Miss Molly The Very Best of Little Richard Specialty Records 2008
2:51 PM		Larry Williams Slow Down Slow Down (Digitally Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records 2009
2:52 PM		Larry Williams Bony Maronie This Is Larry Williams Boulevard Recordings Limited 2010
2:55 PM		The Soul Stirrers I'll Come Running Back To You (feat. Sam Cooke) The Complete Specialty Recordings Fantasy Records 2002
2:57 PM		Roy Milton & His Solid Senders The Hucklebuck Roy Milton And His Solid Senders Craft Recordings 1992

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Hey Jerry 👋 Happy Friday & Member Drive day 3

Hello Jerry! Soothing sounds of Pat Martino

Hi Christine, Hi Brian! I have a bunch of poets and dedicated contributors to WPRB as listeners

You two are good!

Good morning from the west!! 🙌

Hi Kari! Thanks for getting up so early. How has Love Me Like A Man's unveiling been go across the USA on the radio?

9am isn’t too early! 😆

For me it is!

Don’t have a radio campaign for this song… you’re my radio station of choice!!

It's so damn good!

And the video!

Hi Christine and Brian!! 👋🏻

Hello Kari and all! Love when this kicks into the main theme

Pat M that is. I love the cuckoo theme too!

Morning, Kari!

It that time again....Theme song time! 🐦🎶

It feels like Friday once I hear the theme song!

Thanks, Kari! The big story on Action News, however, is Love Me Like A Man

And a happy confluence of Pledge Day, Earth Day, and Record Store Day tomorrow! And then there's Mingus's 100th today, too!

Hi Dave, how are you? Thanks for joining. Alot of stuff happening!

Did anyone hear that WPRB is having a pledge drive?! BAM!

Haha, dough-nor! Perfect! I am going to buy one of your air cookers!

Hey Chef🍳! BAM to you! Soon we'll be seeing your design being worn all around town. 👕

@Jerry i'm so happy that you've seen my commercials! the team really kicked it up a notch with those!

🎂 💯 Charles Mingus

@christine heck yes! may they attract the eyeballs of the globe

Right on, Chef!

BAM!

Messrs Kirk and Boone are certainly helping to chase away the winter blahs....

That Mike Boone Quintet track was a real vibe 🎺

Yes, Christine, It just stood out!

Thanks, Dave, glad you are enjoying!

@Jerry, thanks for playing Anna Gréta. 🇮🇸 Another noteworthy standout 📝

Thanks, Christine, good ears, I thought it was beautiful.

Agreed @Christine!!!

Smooth pavement. 👓

Haha, Hey RS!

Nordic jazz is something I don't know enough about.

Not everyone can be a Kari Kirkland, but Greta was pretty damn good!

You said it, Jerry!

So understated and beautiful… I always hear something new on your show!!!

It was very atmospheric, and the track was totally "realized", it took her (and me) to another place

Thank you, Kari!

Just saw Catherine Russell in Sarasota last month. She’s a powerhouse!!!

@Kari, Wow! 😍

That must have been amazing.

She did a set with John Pizzarelli… it was lovely!

I would have loved to have been there! Where was this?

Jerry G thanks so much for recognizing on air what it takes to curate a show week in and week out.

For the ones who put in the time they are the ones who shine on air ! Respect due my friend

@Jerry - Sarasota Jazz Festival

Hi Jerry ! Max is off school and will be here for Jerry's room, after going to the zoo. Best of luck with the pledges for your show. I'm sure you'll rack up the dough: because the "Eagle flies on Friday", and this afternoon we go out to "Pledge".

Jerry, your shows are always very well planned with lots of space and fun on a different lever between tracks.

Is that T-Bone Gardner?

Love Supreme quote

Lance and of course Max...thank you for the pledge, very much appreciated. Always

The work you both--and everyone else there--put in to your shows is apparent and is greatly appreciated--Thanks so much!!

Thanks, Downeast Dave. Selecta Jerry manages to do it on reefer!

You can tell that many, many hours of work go into the creation of each week's show. But yet it can really seem effortless at times. @JazzJerry @ReggaeJerry

Hahaha Yes, I am pretty skinny. My pleasure.

Ha, thank you Christine!

...effortless when listening to the shows unfold.

Go Pharoah, Go Pharoah!

Tomorrow is the day that WPRB visits Princeton Record Exchange on Record Store Day?

Hey gang

Hey Stevie, thanks for joing!

Joining!

Christine, Brian?

Tomorrow is Record Store Day?

Tomorrow WPRB is at P-rex yes

Downeast Dave?

Thank you, Brian!

It's called Give the Damn DJ a Dollar! 11am - 3pm

some great looking releases on this years RSD list....

Bill Evans, Chicago - live 1971, Chet Baker, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band

Can't make it to Prex tomorrow, but I'll be checking in at Enterprise Records and Bull Moose here in Portland ME.....

Yep, I will be there tomorrow: Princeton Porchfest & PREX 🌈

💸 Give the damn DJs all the dollas

Mok the Knife! Those albums are right up your alley!

yeah looks like my wallet might be a little lighter tommorow.

Downeast Dave, I love Portland, Maine. There are only three things that keep from moving there: It's so cold in the winter, WPRB, and if I moved there I'd be the oldest person in the city. What beer! Coffee! The museum! The food! The greatest!

Rudresh M. and the Hero Trio: impeccable.

Mok, what do you know about the Chicago, the Garcia?

You got it, Christine!

Chicago is goign to be a show from their complete Carnegie Hall box. JG will be his Ragged but Right album.

the more I peruse the list the more I want!

Ya "Portland East" is a great down. All counts there Jerry. Coffee, beer, food

Another nice track from Rudresh

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases

yeah, hey Rob F! He is a unique player, WPRB listeners enjoy his music like it's just sweet and endearing. Lucky to have him in these parts!

Brian, there are so man GREAT breweries there, but I suspect you knew that and drank their beers.

Outdoor coffee places to hang!

Are they re -releasing Ragged But Right this time on vinyl? 1987 Broadway Jerry G acoustic band. He went back to his bluegrass roots. Played a run of shows on Broadway at Lunt Fontane Theater. Did multiple sets each night both with his acoustic band AND electric band. That guy went to work he did. Bill Graham said he wanted to put Jerry playing bluegrass again "on Broadway!". Jerry said make it happen Bill ha!

Shadfest this weekend too.

I miss Portland; haven't been there in years A fun town and a great little minor League ⚾ stadium.

Is it Shadfest already? @Mok

What is shadfest?

Whooah!!! I already was, but now I am REALLY excited for Thursday. This is out of sight

We loved going to Gritty McDuff's bar /micro brewery in Portland, ME for their Stout especially! So good! They nalled it ! Creamy malty Irish stout

Hey Guelo, he is a major league guitarist

Yum, I didn't know

Lambertville, NJ shuts down the streets for little fish fry fun 4/23-4/24 = Shadfest

There's more going on here than ever...an amazing number of venues and events! But I can still listen--and give--to WPRB! We also have a good local station--WMPG--but they've got a few things to learn from you guys...

Jerry Shadfest is a Lambertville tradition. And it spills over into New Hope too. But Lambertville shuts down streets, food & craft & art vendors n fair like atmosphere. A "spring has sprung" kinda fest to get people out etc. Named after that bait fish ha

That's good to know, @Downeast Dave. I'll have to check out WMPG. Whenever I'm downeast and within range (vacations), I listen to WERU in Blue Hill.

I think they have to "import" the shad from NY state. I never ate it nor the roe. Had some other good seafood and eats there over the years. We would park way down or up the canal outside of town and walk. Parking will be impossible

Alexa to Jerry: "... hmm i don't think i can help you with that..." audio gold there ha ha! Only on wprb! we love you Jerry !

Brian, Really ridiculous! My second week in a row!

Junior will chime in shortly!

lol special guest DJ...Alexa!

she's. watching. you.

Probably!

Damn wiretap.

We love guest DJ Junior! Ruff! 🐶

MY ENTIRE SERENADE TO A CUCKOO IS 1 BIG MICROPHONE!

Haha! BB & Ralph are napping. Jr. is awake, getting bored, and going to bark any minute. within minutes

LOL 🎙🛀 @Brian

Leaving the mic open for Junior - highlight of Fridays

👏👏👏

It must have been a crazy adjustment not having all or most djs in the studio for past 2 years. But there is something so cool about hearing the little bits of home life like Junior, djs kids, birds (real or recorded ) etc. This is a great era of wprb

Brian, don't give Jr. a swelled head!

We will be at Shadfest! Gonna park a ways away and walk the DR trail into town. Our first ever since moving to Hunterdon county.

Hi Krista!

Ruff!

Junior!

He barked. Then he licked my ankle. He's gonna bark again when I don't play with him

Hi Krista! Hope you & the fam have a great day at Shadfest.🐟

Hello Jerry. My old girl Antigone would give a very dignified woof to the mailman. Miss having a dog. Love them while you got em.

Thanks, Krista! They got me through the covid era, along with WPRB

Great Krista! Yes we used to park across from the GN flea market lot south of Lville in that park area and hike in. Or in recent years by the 202 bridge north of town .

Thanks, Krista!

Shad Fest fun for the kids

I live close enough for an adult walk, about 4 miles but my 4 year old doesn't have the endurance yet for there and back. There, yes!

Thank you Jerry! Thanks to all the DJs! Thanks to all the chatters! Thanks to all the pledgers!

hey, jerry:). happy drive!

✨Kari✨

Who knows more about Reggae than Sel.Jerry?

✨Selecta✨ One love

@Brian, not even you. But you probably are a close second.

Ha! Excuse me music fans.. could you keep it down? Or we'll have to eject you

Hi Esoterica, how are you doing? Thank you for saying hello!

sure thing! glad to make it to the show! i just created a nickname for myself so you can pronounce my name on the air, but i am sure you know my pronunciation haha

hey c, bri, krista, et al!

Thanks Jerry, for the shout out. Max actually walked in just before your announcement! Great timing.

You are powerful like a turbine but you're a Rubine

That's great! Thank you, Max! You are the best! And a great fisherman!

Camille Howard on the vocals for Thrill Me (no, did not know that... reading about her & Roy Milton, Art Rupe, Specialty Recs now...)

haha love it, jerry!

WPRB makes me dig many rabbit holes with just about every other song played... i gotta look up more about that one! Lather rinse...

Hi Eso! Got any cool movie viewing coming up?

I'm interested in that Nic Cage "poking/popping his own balloon" film.

christine! funny you should mention it, i am watching a Norwegian film right now (or before i realized jerry as on. The film is calledThe Worst Person in the World. Enchanting.

DJE, is that on criterion?

What is that on, E? I was curious to see it.

Criterion Channel is gold.

Gold on steroids!

On my list to Eso! I saw a couple Norwegian films in past few years and liked their dark humor

i renetd on onn demand (comcast) but hopefully it is elsewhere: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi2032321305?playlistId=tt10370710&ref_=tt_ov_vi

Excellent. Thank you.

yes, wasn't last round norwegian with mads? that was great

Check out Janicza Bravo's shorts (short films :) on Criterion. Highly recommend

Thanks, Esoterica. When I think of quirky Nowegian, I immediately think of Elling, but that movie's been around for 20 years now.

Elling. That was the one i really liked. 2 guys who have been out of touch with society and dealing with the public have to get used to life out in the world.

never saw "elling", c! need to

did you see "last round"?

Great sets of tunes here Jerry!

Thanks, Brian!

shoot! taht is danish and it is called "Another Round" with Mads Mikkelson

I never saw Last Round or The Worst Person in the World. I'll look them both up!

another round? Danish?

i'm mad about mads

yes i screwed up when i said last round, it is another round

me, too, stevie p..what a beautiful face, mads has...

another round sounds great the more i read about it! Thanks for the reco

i must say, i love this album art

Eso! Woot woot!

DJE, I highly recommend Flame & Citron. the first role I saw Mads play

thanks are to you, jerry:) thx for the sweet shoutout

👏👏👏 Eso for the win!

oooh adding to my movie list, stevie p. thanks:)

Thank you, Rubine the Turbine. How sweet of you! You're the best!

Hey esoterica lend me $20? Jerry G said you are making bank 🤑🤑🤑

Hanover Pfïst ja

haha yeah sure thing, selecta jerry, i got you:)

Gotta get me some of that action Brian 😂

Blame it on junior

@esoterica how about throwin a couple bills into the GUMBO?! BAM

Chef 😂🤣😂

salsa VERDE! ALL ABOUT THE VERDE! PLEDGE!

bam indeed, chef! only if include some extra okra

Throw some dough-re-mi in the gumbo pot 🍲🔥

JLH! BAM!

This is me, talking to my dog BB

speaking of the green...

Chef, did my wallet ever turn up? It's naugahyde. Hard to miss.

SALSA IN THE GUMBO, OKRA IN THE GUMBO, DOUGH-RE-MI IN THE GUMBO, BOZ SCAGGS WALLET IN THE GUMBO

How many naugas... nah too old and played... I'll spare the chat

@stevie, check the sewers

hehe

Love this groove

Okra looks like little gators when roasted up. Lil dried gator/ fingers

Chef, good to see you around these parts. Thanks for such a great shirt.

ET TOI !

Laissez les bon temps roulet! 🌶

lovin this set

comment ça va les haricots?

WOOOOI!

snap beans ain't salty

@jon a very grateful BAM to you. Sneaking in an earbud right now on the line at work. prepping for a busy friday night at Emeril's™ Princeton

who of the 1st gen rock & roll artists are still with us?

Thanks, Stevie

Little Richard?

He passed away in 2020 unfortunately

Mr Penniman left us in 2020

Jerry Lee Lewis is still alive.

(He's 86.)

Duane Eddy may deserve a mention but yes a bit later on in the 50s

When a song stops and gives it to the vocals & drums = the shizz

Woo! Good show, thanks!

Little Richard: purifying rock & roll scream. The World: 😍

Thanks, Kevin

sorry if this clogs up the chat, but i found this list: https://thefirenote.com/news/still-standing-first-generation-rockers-musicians-need-love-too/

KevinL, thank you very very much for the donation!

Cool article chef ! (but note a few years old so some have gone...)

🎶🔥🎶🔥🎶🔥

@brian good catch!

Thank you, Jerry...such a fun show! 💯 Take care, everybody

Thanks, everybody. Your presence is very much appreciated, and your pledges too. See everybody next Friday at noon!

Cool Chef Bill Pitman on that list is 102! Session guitar player. Did not know about him... reading now

Kari, esoterica, Selecta J, Lance, Christine!,

Great show Jerry!

Brian, Kevin

Chef, Stevie

Clap clap

Thank you Jerry!!!

You made me hungry, thank you

@brian at first I thought his name was "Cool Chef Bill Pitman", which does in fact sound very much like early rock n roll haha