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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Mar 3, 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!

3.3.23

for two hours we celebrate the life of Wayne Shorter, followed by 1 hour of the hits of Stax

12:00 PM		Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Lester Left Town The Big Beat (Remastered) Blue Note Records 2005
12:07 PM		Jane Bunnett Serenade To a Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1994
12:19 PM		Wayne Shorter Black Nile Night Dreamer Blue Note 1964
12:29 PM		Wayne Shorter House of Jade Juju Blue Note (BLU) 2013
12:34 PM		Wayne Shorter Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum Speak No Evil Blue Note Records 2012
12:40 PM		Wayne Shorter Infant Eyes Speak No Evil Blue Note Records 2012
12:57 PM		Wayne Shorter Witch Hunt Speak No Evil (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) Blue Note Records 1999
12:57 PM		Wayne Shorter The All Seeing Eye The All Seeing Eye Blue Note (BLU) 2013
1:14 PM		Wayne Shorter The Soothsayer (Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered] Triple Best of Wayne Shorter EMI 2009
1:25 PM		Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Daniela's Theme Playing With Fire Linus Entertainment 2023
1:27 PM		Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Jump Monk Playing With Fire Linus Entertainment 2023
1:33 PM		Wayne Shorter Indian Song Etcetera Blue Note Records 1995
1:47 PM		Wayne Shorter Footprints Adam's Apple Blue Note (BLU) 2013
1:55 PM		Wayne Shorter Tom Thumb (with Curtis Fuller, James Spaulding, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Joe Chambers) Schizophrenia Blue Note (BLU) 2013
2:11 PM		Booker T & The MG's Green Onions (1962 Recording Remastered) Green Onions plus Debut 2020
2:11 PM		Otis Redding Pain In My Heart The Very Best of Otis Redding Rhino Atlantic 1992
2:13 PM		Rufus Thomas Land of 1,000 Dances Walking the Dog Rhino Atlantic 2004
2:14 PM		Otis Redding Mr. Pitiful The Complete Stax/Volt Singles: 1959-1968 [Disc 4] 1964
2:15 PM		The Astors Candy Atlantic Gold
2:19 PM		Otis Redding Respect (2020 Remaster) The Best Of Otis Redding Rhino Atlantic 2020
2:21 PM		Otis Redding I Can't Turn You Loose (2020 Remaster) The Best Of Otis Redding Rhino Atlantic 2020
2:24 PM		Otis Redding Satisfaction (I Can't Get No) The Very Best of Otis Redding Rhino Atlantic 1992
2:27 PM		Sam & Dave Hold On I’m Coming Atlantic Gold
2:29 PM		Eddie Floyd Knock on Wood (Remastered) Knock on Wood (Remastered) Caribe Internacional 2014
2:40 PM		Albert King Oh, Pretty Woman Born Under A Bad Sign Stax 2002
2:40 PM		Otis Redding Try a Little Tenderness (2020 Remaster) The Best Of Otis Redding Rhino Atlantic 2020
2:42 PM		Albert King Born Under a Bad Sign Born Under A Bad Sign Stax 2002
2:45 PM		Sam & Dave Soul Man Rhino Hi-Five: Sam & Dave - EP Rhino Atlantic 2005
2:48 PM		Sam & Dave I Thank You Stax '68: A Memphis Story Craft Recordings 2018
2:55 PM		Jean Knight Mr. Big Stuff Mr. Big Stuff Fantasy Records 1990
2:56 PM		The Staple Singers Respect Yourself Be Altitude: Respect Yourself Craft Recordings 2019
2:58 PM		Isaac Hayes Theme from Shaft Shaft (Music From the Soundtrack) Stax 2016
3:02 PM		The Dramatics Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get Stax 2011

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room

It's that time again...Hi, Jerry

Hi Christine! I hope you find today's show interesting

I hope you had a good week

Hi Jerry. Hoping we'll hear some Wayne Shorter. RIP.

𓀤𓀥 radio neighbor high five

Hi Stephen, two hours worth!

Hi DJ Caroline, so nice of you! Backatcha!

It's been a good week overall, except for the sad news that Wayne Shorter passed away yesterday. 💔 🎷

Yes

*hat tip*

Ha, Mok!

Mok, if you don't have, you need these Blue Note Wayne Shorter albums.

Right to the theme song! 🐦 🎶 Is this a new paradigm?

i noticed there was hole in my colletion when i went to listen to Wayne Shorter yesterday

I'm in shock

There is no Mosaic box of his Blue note recordings but they are essential

Nate Chinen has a really beautiful obit for Wayne in today's print edition of the NYT.

Hi Mike, I'm guessing you were a Weather report fan?

Good afternoon Jerry!

Wow....you guessed correctly

Hi Tony, nice to see you. I will try to do that today, musically.

Jane Bunnett & Maqueque in Philly...exciting stuff

Celebrate the life of Wayne Shorter! What a force. A "younger member" who has compositions in the Real Book

Thanks for doing this Wayne Shorter tribute, Jerry. I know I could not do justice to this great man.

Hi Brian!

Chronological - nice

Two hours of Wayne...only on PRB and Serenade! Nice!

Hi Rob F

JuJu... what a classic

Dave, you do a great job on everything you do!

so nice

Right on, Rob!

Hi Jerry! Just saying hello, I'm outside the listening area today unfortunately, R.I.P. The GREAT Wayne Shorter, was lucky to catch him do a solo show at the Art Museum some years back, incredible.

Wow! Hi Ambrose, that must have been just fantastic. On the steps to Abe Lincoln? Thanks much for saying hello!

what a lineup

Yee-ha!

This is lovely

These sets have been fantastic. 💯 Work's keeping me out of the chat.

Your presence is felt!

This one is so good too

Yes - Footprints

I can probably air Nefertiti and Water Babies next week.

Fantastic, Dave.

Could listen all day.

Look forward to it DTO

Dave, that will be great!

So difficult to distill Wayne Shorter down to two hours. Nice selections, Jerry! Thanks!

As well as loads of Weather Report

Was just about to say that

Excellent

Thanks, Russ, Rob, Christine

Thank you Jerry!

Dave, I will announce

Cheers Wayne! Thank you for all the great music!

Thanks, Jerry

I was lucky enough to see Wayne Shorter with Weather Report in 1974:

https://www.weatherreportdiscography.org/concerts/1974-09-22/

that's a prime period

... my brother's writing out an American Express Traveller's Cheque to cover the expensive bar tab. I better check up see how he's doing. See, I hafta sign it too. I usually sit in the car and write it out on the... uhh.. glove compartment lid, ok? [Jake and Elwood spin out the tires of the Bluesmobile and leave in a hurry.. ]

Ha!

They took this one and SPED IT UP UP UP!! Love that bass & guitar line

I didn't know that. I also love the Chambers Bros version

The Blues Brothers (featuring many of the Stax / Booker T session band) used a super fast instrumental version of I Can't Turn You Loose as their intro music . Great way to enter a room / walk on stage etc

Stax o Stax Wax

Yessir

What a backing band here behind Albert. Thick sound

Powerful

How to build a song up 101 here

One of the high points of Monterey Pop

Mama Cass with her jaw touching the ground

yes

You always key right in, Mike! Your head is full of such information!

It's full of something!!

You and Brian, loaded with info!

I bow to Brian

Hey Jerry, your absolutely on FIRE with this set list. Having a great Friday thanks to you!

Thanks very much, Dan! Great, may your feet continue dancing into the weekend

Tone of those keyboards

On I Thank You

very electric, synthetic, and great

Ready to Run Redlights after all this fun Stax music

More great keyboards for ya! Who is that?

Ya that electric piano on Stax recordings wow

Till then, you bad motha's

Thank you, Jerry!

These three hours flew! 🐦

Mike "Soul Man" Constantine

Epic ending track! Thanks for the awesome tunes Jerry.

Might be Barry Beckett on keyboards for Staples Respect Yourself acc to searches...

Ha!!

Thank you, Christine, Brian, Russ and all

Mike there was your favorite part!

Well shut my mouth and call it a weekend....

have a great one