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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Jan 20, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Jerry Gordon

Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room: a two hour jazz show featuring new, modern jazz releases or special jazz features, followed by one hour of non-jazz including pop, r&b, rock, and blues from the forties thru the seventies! You will love it!

1.20.23

Brand new modern jazz releases from 2023 followed by a tribute to David Crosby

12:00 PM		Patricia Brennan More Touch More Touch Pyroclastic Records 2022
12:10 PM		Jay Hoggard Primordial Aqua Mist Raise Your Spirit Consciousness Jhvm Recordings 2023
12:16 PM		Marcus Strickland Twi-Life You and I, An Anomaly The Universe's Wildest Dream Strick Muzik 2023
12:22 PM		Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets Appointment in Ghana Pan Africa
12:25 PM		Derrick Gardner & The Jazz Prophets Djembe Kan Pan Africa
12:27 PM		Ben Wolfe The Heckler Unjust
12:33 PM		Jon Irabagon Sundance Rising Sun
12:43 PM		Joe Chambers Power To The People Dance Kobina Blue Note Records 2023
12:49 PM		Donald Harrison Jr.-Xavier Davis-Dwayne Burno-Nasheet Waits Serenade to a Cuckoo Haunted Melodies: Songs of Rashaan Roland Kirk
1:05 PM		Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter Baby Hold on to Me (feat. Nate Smith) Guilty Pleasures (feat. Nate Smith) - EP Edition Records 2023
1:06 PM		Something Blue The Path Personal Preference Posi-Tone Records 2023
1:12 PM		Mike LeDonne, Jeremy Pelt & Eric Alexander Hub Heavy Hitters Cellar Live 2023
1:23 PM		Chris Potter Klactoveedsestene Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live At the Village Vanguard
1:40 PM		Yvonnick Prene Dig Listen! Sunnyside Records 2023
1:40 PM		Ed Cherry Green Jeans Are We There yet? Cellar Live 2023
1:46 PM		Dave Stryker Hope (feat. Jared Gold & McClenty Hunter Jr.) Prime (feat. Jared Gold & McClenty Hunter Jr.) Strikezone Records 2023
2:02 PM		Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke Muse Lean In
2:04 PM		The Byrds Eight Miles High Fifth Dimension (Bonus Track Version) Columbia/Legacy 1996
2:04 PM		The Byrds Everybody's Been Burned Younger Than Yesterday (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks) Columbia/Legacy 1996
2:10 PM		The Byrds Renaissance Fair Younger Than Yesterday (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks) Columbia/Legacy 1996
2:10 PM		The Byrds Draft Morning The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks) Columbia/Legacy 1989
2:13 PM		The Byrds Dolphin's Smile The Notorious Byrd Brothers (Reissue Edition with Bonus Tracks) Columbia/Legacy 1989
2:18 PM		Crosby, Stills & Nash Guinevere Crosby, Stills & Nash Rhino Atlantic 1969
2:21 PM		Crosby, Stills & Nash Long Time Gone Crosby, Stills & Nash Rhino Atlantic 1969
2:26 PM		David Crosby Laughing If I Could Only Remember My Name Rhino Atlantic 2005
2:34 PM		David Crosby Music Is Love If I Could Only Remember My Name Rhino Atlantic 2005
2:34 PM		David Crosby Triad (Demo) [2021 Remaster] Déjà Vu (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rhino Atlantic 2021
2:40 PM		Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Almost Cut My Hair (2021 Remaster) Déjà Vu (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rhino Atlantic 2021
2:44 PM		Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young Déjà Vu (2021 Remaster) Déjà Vu (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rhino Atlantic 2021
2:54 PM		Jefferson Airplane Wooden Ships Volunteers (Bonus Track Version) RCA/BMG Heritage 2004

Chat is archived.

Hi Everyone, and welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Hi Jerry and Happy Friday to you!

Hi Christine, Happy Friday!

Hello all

Hi Brian, glad to see you!

I am digging this!

everything sound ok?

Everything sounds excellent; I am digging this track. Percussion!

anyone know the way to Tamalpais High?

Ha! Keb Mok, love it! But not playing that today

afternoon folks. happy Friday

mmm more of a melancholy Friday maybe

CSN was it when i was a kid

Yeah, melancholy jazz going into David Crosby! Too much for one hour!

CSN, the summer before my Freshman year of college. CSN, bringing in "the new world"

Another great name, Mok

We are in the primordial aqua mist

Greetings to Jerry and fellow cult members

I love seeing the year "2023" after these releases. The new year is off and running!

Hi Patrick, glad to see you!

Hi Patrick, Brian, Keb' Mok' (lol) and all

These new releases sound really great, some of these I know will be on my best of 2023

Happy Chinese New Years to everyone. In honor of Year of the Rabbit Jerry will be playing a full hour devoted to that Irish Troubadour Mr.Eddie Rabbitt.

I knew I was craving Chinese food! When is the Chinese New Year?

Patrick, this week I drove up and back to NY, listening to WBAI the whole time. Some wild interesting whacky stuff

Heard a good interview w Latin Filipino jazz artist Joe Bataan yesterday on WFMU. Good stories.

I bet!

This is dedicated to Christine

Chinese New Year Sunday January 22

Lunar New Year is Sunday. 🐇 🥮 🌒

Hey thanks, Jerry! 🪘

Ooh that's nice!

Hi Lee. This track?

I too heard some wacky stuff on WBAI Some classical music Aficionado with 3 names was bashing Putin and architectural monstrosities. HARRUMPH!!

Fits right in with the rest of the guys I heard!

Later Jerry will dedicate a song to me.The Curly shuffle!!

I have it! Will taught me that one

This, unquestionably, will be one of my albums of the year. It is a killer

This is good too of course, but I was responding to 'Djembe Kan'.

It was a traditional song from West Africa. It actually opens the album it was on to musically gather the band

This one's fun

Good afternoon, Jerry...Go Birds!

Hey Stephen! The Eagles will beat the crap out of the Giants. Just sayin'

...if Jaylen isn't tentative

Brian, this guy is a very creative tenor with alot of power behind his improvisations

Yes, the Birds should spank them...but only if Jaylen is a running threat.

Excellent and concise analysis

Some good mallet percussion instruments today on the Cuckoo

Nothing escapes Brian!

Theme song time! 🐦 🎶

Theme on the sax today

There's the cuckoo with the beak!

Aha the bumblebee quote

what was that, Brian?

Finished hopefully last meeting of the day and right on time for theme song

Hi Rob F!

Sax solo quoted Flight of the Bumblebee for a few seconds

Will there be a Jerry Blavat tribute today?

The boss with the hot sauce

Right on.

Rob, thanks for tuning in right after the meeting!

Edward Mahoney the former cop that changed jobs

This is...an Eddie Money cover?!

Jerry I said Eddie Rabbit not Eddie Money!!

Hahahahahaha. Yes, Christine, I knew you would know it, but Brian knows his legal name.

Patrick, you inspired this song

This cover is amazing. It is "B. Waaaaaaay better than the original"

It's pretty damn good!

At first, people were probably thinking, "why do I recognize this?" 🤔 lol

I recognized it immediately and had no idea who did the original or when

I'm still laughing about someone mentioning Eddie Rabbit

Now we just need someone in the jazz world to record "I Love a Rainy Night" 🐇

Patrick can't help what flies out of his head. It's like tourette syndrome bur for ideas

stream on unconscious

I earned a PHD in nothingness

anyone know anything about the artist Alfa Mist?

Perhaps Bunny Sigler would have been a better request for New Year

Haaaaaaaa.....

I heard Alfa mist, loved them, but I don't remember who he or they is. I just remember the music being fantastic

Yeah I hear the Sweet Georgia Brown changes here totally

cool. I'm going to grab a few tickets for Alfa Mist in April. he does hiphop jazz piano.

This is so great

That organ tone here!

I hear ya! Totally great recording by a great guitarist who always plays with organists. This is a Grant Green tune.

Patrick, your comments are always great and often memorable

christine get ready

Is this.....

Gretchen Parlato?!

your girl, yes!

forthcoming release

💜 Great news

Dave Stryker teaches at Montclair State Univ. My daughter had friends that he taught

Nice! He was the guitarist for Stanley turrentine for many years. Didn't realize he taught there!

My daughter took lessons with pianist Oscar Perez there

wow

Was a nice opportunity for her, you are a good Dad

Thanks, she enjoyed her time there

Lights incense... puts towel under door tightly...

Oscar Perez, very accomplished

Had a great time seeing CSN every summer at the Mann Music Center in W Philly from 1984 to 1990. Outdoor shows at the Mann. Good stuff

Def needs all those things for that track and this! Actually all the Byrds tracks

I was at one of those Mann shows in the 80's

Hi Mike!

Hi Jerry!

Sister took me to the first few of those Mann shows. The Band recently reunited opened one year. That was a great bill

Are you at the Old Same Place?

Nope...can't get there from here

I see

I'm at the same old place

Say hello to Nick Danger, Third Eye

I will if I don't run into Rocky Rococo

Or Betty Joe Bylofsky

Russ, where are you?

Everyone knew her as Nancy

I’m at Ralph Spoilsport in the city of Emphysema.

There you go!

I'm on the Antelope Freeway

No fade outs allowed! Jerry Garcia on pedal steel Phil Lesh on bass for this one

Right on, Brian

The recordings of these multi group sessions have been floating around for years in the cassette and digital eras. Some ended up on this Crosby solo lp (... remember my name) and others

interesting

Some great lead gtr moments strewn about them from Neil, Jerry, Jorma, Stephen

Lot of cross pollinization

all 4 on this track?

No i meant all across the session tapes not all on 1 track sorry

Neil up front here

On the vocals

aha!

The sessions are often nicknamed the "PERRO" tapes or sessions etc. Acronym for Planet Earth Rock & Roll Orchestra. Assembled different ways on diff so called bootlegs. Great sound. Fly on the wall loose sessions. Some alt takes of the Crosby solo lp etc

Jerry, Great show. Thanks for doing this for David Crosby. Very sad days lately

Wally Heider studio. Sacred space ha. Almost as sacred as Jerry's room ha

Bit of a controversial song, this one

East coast vibes in Jerry's room

This vocal

Right on, Mike, you rock historian you

was the airplane the first to release triad?

I first heard on 4 way Street

Ahh. Which came first, that or crown of creation?

Neil and Stephen dueling!

Separate the wheat from the chaff.... don't always hear that in rock lyrics

Just Amish Rock

Our House... ja we raised it ourselves

lpol!

ugh...lol

John Sebastian on the harmonica

Love Stephen tone w the tone knob "choked " down

So I bought George Harrison's Electronic Sounds...played it...declared it as crap and took it back to Jerry's Records and exchanged it for the new Deja Vu

They call that a throuple now.

Read the one main CSN bio book last year. Interesting and detailed. As well as frustrating & just ugh... excesses n egos... breakup every 4 or 5 years or so

Did not know that, Johnny!

I mean Christine!

Right you are oh great one! Hiii-Yoa

Time for some purple berries

(Putts imaginary ball to commercial)

Haha

Ode to açai

Coming up...Dean Martin and George Gobel

A lot of ground covered in only 3 hours. Thank you, Jerry! Rest in peace, David Crosby.

Brian, lol!

Jorma!

Yes! And thank y ou everybody

Have a good weekend, all! We're gaining daylight every day ☀️

Jorma and also John Cipollina just towering spine tingling SF lead gtr tones.

Thank you Jerry!

Goodnight to David Crosby and Jerry Blavat

Great show Jerry ! Happy weekend!

Hi Dude! Thanks Brian, thanks everybody