Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri Jun 10 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo

Good afternoon Jerry!

Hi Brian! Thanks, as always

Sounds like Pure Imagination from Charlie and the chocolate factory

Yes. What a great song!

Oh it is... there's the playlist!

It has become a famous song in the jazz world.

Just you and me today, Brian!

Spelling ending in "-ance" on this one will probably get the playlist to update. Perseverance.

Software spelling!

Try it now, if you can

Same. Must not be known as well to the computer gremlins

Oh well... Sounds great! Like that bass groove and the sax on top

It's the bassplayer's CD, I never heard of him before. I agree, this is killer

Ya good mood

Hiyooo

Greetings and Salutations!

Mok, you've done it again. Brilliant as always. Mr. Malcontent, so nice to see your lovely face!

This track is feat. Chris Speed, Nate Wood & Shane Endsley !

Hi, DJ Jerry Gordon!

True, Mr. Malcontent, how did you see that?

I’m a WARLOCK!

Always one step ahead, MM

Mok, what is happening?

Running down a dream

How is itunes treating you

I hope you enjoy Jerry's Room today, I play "holding On to a Dream". Are you trying to acquire a dream?

My computer hasn't blown up yet, but I'm running on fumes

Im feeling Tom Petty'ish today

That is weird the way that itunes sync works.

Hey Jerry, Mok, Brian, & MrMalcontent 💀!

I get it for backup purposes but it seems extreme

Hey Christine.. afternoon

I guess you just can't play a song that's not on your hard drive.

Super Selections! 🎶🎵

Hi Christine, glad you're here!

Thanks, MM

Greetings - Nice guitar

Hi Rob, yeah, post-Hendrix

That groovy flute track reminded me strongly of the classic "Ponta de Lanca African (Umbabarauma)" that Pethie played yesterday. ⚽

By Jorge Ben (Luaka Bop records). Classic.

Interesting. The name of Shabaka's album is Afrikan Culture. He is British. Could have been an influence! I will check out this Jorge Ben album, thank you!

Shabaka's going on The List!

He is at the very top of the British jazz scene. A leader and innovator.

Afternoon Jerry. Looking forward to some awesome music to get me through my workday! Beautiful day in the Philly Burb's!

Hey Stephen, will do. What general vicinity of the burbs are you in?

It's that time....theme song! 🐦🎶

Yeah!!!

Hi, Jerry. I'm in Lansdowne. I loved Third St. Jazz and Evidence Records.

Hey Marcus, thanks! Appreciate it. I used to spend every Sunday evening at my grandparents in Collingdale.

TIGRAN HAMASYAN 💎💙

I'm in Glenside. Couple blocks from the Keswick Theater!

Great so far Jerry! Eric Reed really blew me out of the water there.

Oh yeah, Stephen, beautiful!

Glenside is a nice place; I used to live there. I miss the Blue Comet. ☄️Closed for a year now.

Sometimes Michelle Lordi & her band plays at Roberts Block.

Guelo, that is the most beautiful version of that song I have ever heard

Looking forward to the Grachan tribute.

I'm glad, Marcus, such great music

That Caesar Frazier track was good

Glad you liked it, Rob, good CD!

Yup, The Blue Comet used to be a great place! It's now just a typical "Coors Lite" sports bar. Nothing special. Yes, in fact I went and saw Michelle at Robert's after hearing Jerry interview her on his show in 2019. It was right before the pandemic started. She played Robert's and a week or two later...the world shut down! All those places are within walking distance of my house. We love Glenside!!

Christian Sands in playing tomorrow 8pm at McCarter Theatre in Princeton

Stephen, Christine, a million years ago I had a girlfriend who lived in a house across from a park a couple blocks from the Blue Comet but it didn't exist then. Loved the area. Then worked a couple blocks from there 5 years ago. Love Glenside. The neighborhoods feel safe

Rob, I didn't know that. Are you going?

I'm hoping to go, but have not got a ticket yet. Looks like still plenty of seats

Gene W does pretty good but I think I’d have to agree. Also thanks Rob for the local concert heads up

Yes, you can't beat the original!

McCarter Theater brings back a memory. In high school I saw a production of Godot there. 1977. Good memory.

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Great selections today, as always. I'm especially enjoying this Jason Palmer track. Don't know much about him, must check him out further. Thanks.

Correction, 1973.

Did you play something off this record last week…? So good. Jazz fire energy.

CORRECTION! It's Nduduzo Makhathini. That's what happens when you walk out of the room and away from the playlist! LOL

No, this is my first time playing it. yes to your description!

Hi Richard!

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Very impressive track, thanks.

Nduduzo Makhathini twice in one day! Dave the Obscure played a track from this album too. Gotta buy this one.

👍️

Hey, Dave

Grachan and Roswell were the best.

Right on, Marcus! Richard, it's nice to see people continue to grow as music listeners and explore different types of music as well as you do

sounds great.

Hey Mok

PDQ Mok

some more folk today ...nice

sounds like you had too much fun last Sunday

Yes, I was able to get my folk "ya yas" out and had too much good stuff left over

Sunday's show was so much fun!

I was fortunate to see Grachan Moncur III at a two day festival dedicated to the music of Eric Dolphy in Montclair NJ in May 2014. Great music and wonderful to see Moncur! Thanks for the tribute, Jerry.

Thanks, Christine.

Impressive, Russ!

@Mok, "Mok in Wonderland" could be a future variant for you.

Haha, brilliant!

*taking notes* 🙂

With luck, maybe the great Dave Burrell is listening.

I forgot to mention the musicians ahead of time for this track. Yes, the greatest, Dave Burrell on piano

I haven't listened to a lot of Moncur, but I'm realizing I need to. Those were a couple fantastic tracks!

“My name is Mok, thanks a lot. I know you love the thing I got. You've never seen the likes of me. Why, I'm the biggest thing since World War III.” –Mok Swagger

im in the same boat. Moncur is new to me.

Hi Bud, I was running out of time and didn't play another album that I had planned. The album is called Exploration which came out in 2004. Highly recommended.

Thanks, I'll look that up! I actually keep a running list of stuff that I hear (mostly on WPRB) that I want to dig into.

Moncur had dental problems and I guess it affected his embrochure. He had been teaching and writing but not recording for 20 years

Then he came out with the one I just mentioned

I love when a legendary musician is able to come out with a later great record. Like that Pharaoh Sanders collaboration from a couple years ago, for example.

Zim Bobertman

Mok Zimmerman

The Zim as I usually call him.

Ha!

Great to hear Smither version there !

last time I saw Zim was ages ago. I think maybe 2001'ish in Canada somewhere

This mood 💯

Chris Smither, Tracy Nelson...the best!

A threesome that didn't work out!

Smither to Withers! Bromberg doing Withers nice!

The first time I heard of Tracy Nelson was reading Bruce Pollock’s 1984 book “When the Music Mattered: Rock in the 1960s”. There was a whole chapter on her.

What a character. I wonder if the segue was unconcious because of the rhyme!

David Shortell...Mother Earth!

OK, we got a good one coming up for you

Christine

I adore Tracy Nelson. Her version of 'Down So Low' is unbelievably great.

💜 Joan

John Osborne is pretty good too.

Haha, Marcus, you have excellent taste. You must be an old head.

Aka Ozzy.

Lol @Marcus. "Pretty good"

Evidence Records✨💿

Yeah, I saw Black Sabbath at the Spectrum in 1971 at 16. I got into jazz a couple of years later

Ozzy is having major surgery

Jerry has quite a thing for Bonnie🥰

It was WMMR.

Probably Ed Sciakey hosting.

Yeah i used to have that exact Bonnie live radio show on cassette . And another tape from later in her career (late 80s) where someone requested "Let me be your blender... " . Bonnie said no thanks, I haven't performed that in years. For a while there I stated getting billed as "Bonnie Blender " ha. So she put that one to bed . Moved on...

Yes, Mok, that track was hot. But I culd give you a list.

Bonnie Raitt will be at the Mann next week.

https://manncenter.org/events/2022-06-15/bonnie-raitt

I had the early 70s gig on tape much later on in the late 80s early 90s. I was not aware of the orig mmr broadcast as I was only 3 yrs old then.

Shows that Bonnie was still hip in the tape trading circles years later. This was just before the big "comeback" lp w the "...Talk About " hit.

Sweet Stavin’ Chain!

🧸💕

Russ, do you remember them?

from your hippie days?

Is this Iris?

Of course! I saw them at the Be-Ins at Belmont Plateau!

Boom! There is it!

You are still a hippie

wow they opened for The Mothers

down the rabbit hole I go

Does that make my offspring a son-of-a-hippie?

Sweet Stavin' Chain was the first band I ever saw. They opened for Mott the Hoople and headliner Ten Years After in 1970.

How can we hang on to a dream....

Wasn’t able to chat! But excellent show, Jerry:)

I saw them open for the Jefferson Airplane at the Palestra in 1969

https://www.classicposters.com/performer/sweet-stavin-chain/

Wasn't there a "Be-In" badge that Scouts could earn in those days?

DJ Jerry Gordon, many thanks for sharing the great music, fascinating stories, important information! Big cheers and kind regards to you!

Yes it does, Russ, except your son is also a hippie. Haha, Marcus, very hip!

Thank you esoterica, glad you were able to listen!

Sandy Denny! One of my favorite songs ever!

Perfect closing choice!

That is VERY Philadelphia, Russ

There's a beautiful solo version of Sandy doing this at the beeb on YouTube

Yes Christine, there was also a badge for making a fire out in the woods to light a hash pipe.

What great picks today. 10/10 Thanks, Jerry!

A bidi badge...

Thank you, MM, you are appreciated.

hahaha

Great closer. Love to see Richard Thompson do this and give thanks & honor for Sandy . Song means a lot to him & Fairport

Gotta be ramblin' on

Yes, the Fairport, Fotheringay, Sandy Denny, Strawbs-hole

Hear, hear! The last set had fab picks. It's especially beautiful and precious to hear greats of the late-60s, early '70s like The Youngbloods and Tim Hardin. Keep their music alive, Jerry!

Keep ME alive! Thanks Mok

Thanks Jerry

Thanks Richard, I meant

til next time Jerry. peace all

I thank Mok, Guelo, Christine, everybody

Brian

marcus

12:03 PM		Eric Reed Pure Imagination Pure Imagination Impulse! 1998
12:04 PM		Billy Mohler Perseverance Anatomy
12:18 PM		Shabaka Ital is vital Afrikan Culture 2022
12:18 PM		Michael Gregory Jackson The Rainy Days Electric Git Box
12:25 PM		Tigran Hamasyan All the Things You Are (feat. Mark Turner) StandArt Nonesuch 2022
12:28 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:39 PM		Caesar Frazier Mergin' Traffic Tenacity / As We Speak Track Merchant Records 2022
12:45 PM		Andrea Brachfeld & Insight What’s Up (feat. Bill O'Connell) Evolution 2022
12:52 PM		Jason Palmer Nefertiti Con Alma 2022
12:59 PM		Nduduzo Makhathini Unonkanyamba In The Spirit Of Ntu Universal Music (Pty) Ltd. 2022
1:14 PM		Jackie McLean Frankenstein One Step Beyond CM BLUE NOTE (A92) 2013
1:29 PM		Grachan Moncur III Monk In Wonderland Evolution (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered] Blue Note Records 2008
1:29 PM		Grachan Moncur III New Africa New Africa Affinity 2007
2:04 PM		Alan Broadbent Trio This I Dig of You Like Minds Savant 2022
2:05 PM		Linus Eppinger Quiet-Lee (feat. Nicolai Daneck, Jorge Rossy & Doug Weiss) Leaning In (feat. Nicolai Daneck, Jorge Rossy & Doug Weiss) 2022
2:05 PM		Taj Mahal It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry Tangled Up In Blues: Songs of Bob Dylan Intersound 1994
2:11 PM		Chris Smither Love You Like a Man I'm a Stranger Too Tomato Records 2002
2:11 PM		Tracy Nelson Walk Away Essential Recordings: The Soul Sessions Rounder Records 2009
2:16 PM		David Bromberg Use Me Use Me Appleseed 2011
2:22 PM		Joan Osborne Natural High Breakfast In Bed Time-Life Music 2007
2:29 PM		Bonnie Raitt Blender Blues The Lost Broadcast, Philadelphia 1972
2:31 PM		Ted Hawkins Strange Conversation The Final Tour EVIDENCE MUSIC INC 1994
2:47 PM		The Youngbloods Grizzly Bear The Youngbloods Legacy Recordings 1967
2:47 PM		Sweet Stavin Chain Teddy Bear's Picnic Sweet Stavin Chain
2:48 PM		Iris DeMent The Shores of Jordan My Life Yep Roc Records 1993
2:50 PM		Tim Hardin How Can We Hang On to a Dream Hang On to a Dream: The Verve Recordings Polydor 1994

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