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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Mar 31, 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!

3.31.23

Two hours of great new modern jazz releases followed by one hour of the r&b of 1960

12:05 PM		The Mothers of Invention It Can't Happen Here Freak Out! Frank Zappa Catalog 2012
12:05 PM		Bobo Stenson Trio Unquestioned Answer - Charles Ives in Memoriam Sphere ECM Records 2023
12:13 PM		Ralph Alessi Quartet Residue It's Always Now
12:19 PM		Arooj Aftab-Vijay Iyer-Shahzad Ismaily To Remain/To Return Love In Exile
12:27 PM		Dwight Trible Wind Ancient Future 2023
12:34 PM		Sanah Kadoura The Gemini's Duality Sanah Kadoura 2023
12:39 PM		Nguen Le Trio Silk & Sand Silk & Sand
12:52 PM		Kenny Barron Phantoms The Source Artwork Records 2022
12:52 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
1:14 PM		Theo Croker, Ego Ella May & Jeff Parker Somethin' BY THE WAY - EP
1:17 PM		Billy Childs The Black Angel The Winds of Change Mack Avenue Records 2023
1:24 PM		Wayne Escoffery My Truth (feat. Gregory Porter) Like Minds Smoke Sessions 2023
1:33 PM		Mike Allen JuJu To a Star Cellar Live 2023
1:39 PM		Louis Hayes Nefertiti Exactly Right!
2:10 PM		Christian McBride's New Jawn East Broadway Rundown Pride
2:10 PM		Brian Hyland Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini Brian Hyland Hits,Hits,Hits... (And Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka dot Bikini) Rescue 2003
2:10 PM		Rosco Gordon Just A Little Bit (Digitally Remastered) Just A Little Bit (Digitally Remastered) - Single Bacci Bros Records
2:11 PM		Jessie Hill Ooh Poo Pah Doo Ooh Poo Pah Doo - Single Essential Media Group 2011
2:11 PM		Buster Brown Fannie Mae Fannie Mae - Single Black Sheep Music 2013
2:14 PM		Ike & Tina Turner Wake Up Don't Play Me Cheap CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1963
2:17 PM		James Brown Think Blowing the Fuse 1960
2:21 PM		Maurice Williams & The Zodiacs Stay Essential Hits Solid Blue Group S.L. 2014
2:21 PM		Howlin' Wolf Spoonful 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Howlin' Wolf Geffen 2003
2:24 PM		Bo Diddley Roadrunner 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of Bo Diddley
2:25 PM		Elmo James & his Broomdusters The Sky Is Crying Plug it In 1960
2:26 PM		B.B. King Sweet Sixteen Ladies and Gentlemen
2:52 PM		Hank Ballard & The Midnighters Finger Poppin' Time 28 Big Ones (Original King Records Recordings) King Records 2015
2:52 PM		Little Anthony & The Imperials Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop The Greatest Hits of Little Anthony and the Imperials Rhino 2005
2:54 PM		Sam Cooke Wonderful World The Very Best of Sam Cooke RCA/Legacy 2010
3:06 PM		Earl King Come On 45
3:08 PM		The Olympics Big Boy Pete Big Boy Pete - Single Black Sheep Music 2013
3:08 PM		The Drifters Save the Last Dance for Me All-Time Greatest Hits & More (1959-1965) Rhino 1988
3:08 PM		Gary U.S. Bonds New Orleans A Quarter to Three AP Digital 2017

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everybody, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

It's that time again....!

There we go!

Hi Jerry, Brian & all

Hi Christine, Brian!

Help... I'm a rock...

One of the greatest albums ever!

It can’t happen here.

Help... tonight I'm gonna rock you tonight.... from the dept of redundancy dept

Freak OUT

One of us, one of us

Hi Dave

Hi have some DTO music coming your way

The present day composer refuses to die!

Edgar, how are you?\

Didn't Charles Ives teach at Princeton or am I making that up?

Also, how is the volume on the show?

Ives worked in insurance. Did not teach at Princeton.

Ahh, Crumb was at Princeton

How is the volume, here? I have reasons for concern

R. Crumb did not teach at Princeton either. But Phil Schaap did!

Was hoping we would hear this!

Your volume sounds great here 🎛 🎶

Thanks, Christine

👂🏻

Good afternoon Jerry, great day to sit inside and listen to some superb music!

Dave, new Verve release, Pakastani vocalist singing in Urdu

Good to see you, Stephen, thank you!

George Crumb taught at Penn.

I have liked all of her earlier releases. This one sounds great

Wow!

Vijay Iyer on piano

George Crumb lived in Media and taught at Penn.

There you go, thanks

Heard them all do a great interview this week. Great approach.

Who and where, Brian

nice set thanks

Hi Maria, thank you!

That Dwight Trible track was excellent. I'm reading that Kamasi Washington joins Dwight on this album. 🎷

I didn't know that. I was sent a digital file and didn't look up the personnel.

That's a problem with the record companies sending out fewer and fewer promos.

Hi Jerry, good music as always

Hi Rob F

Thank you!

I was just reading a review of Dwight's album online.

And I need this Nguyen Le as well

He's still--after many years--still largely undiscovered

Dwight Trible, that is

Nguyen Le is not exactly famous either

Good point, Dave

You and I are on a mission to change that

Right on!

Nguyên Lê is a star of The New Abnormal playlist, at least.

Dave knows wha good is.

what

🐦 🎶❗️

What a line-up for the Princeton Jazz Fest. https://music.princeton.edu/event/jazz-festival-2023/

This song!

Theo Croker is a badddd musician, a great composer signed to Columbia Masterworks!

The guitarist was Jeff Parker

Heard another song from that recently. Not sure which DJ played it

He's put out lots of good stuff. This is an EP

Vijay Iyer will be streamed live in SF Jazz next Friday: https://athome.sfjazz.org/fridays-live-1/videos/vijay-iyer-trio

Thanks, Russ

Slay!

Michele Lordi will be at Fergie’s Pub in Philly as part of the Center City Jazz Festival on April 22: https://www.ccjazzfest.com/schedule

George Cables and Dezron Douglas will be at the Center City Jazz Festival too.

Did you hear the music A serenade from the stars?

RIP Zippy share

Hi Mok, what is Serenade from the stars? Shocking about Zippyshare

Singing a little Steve Miller✌️

Thank god for the Beatles

Steve Miller did a helluva version of this!

Enjoying the show and history lessons!

Thank you, Stitchingpink, how are you?

Late reply Jerry: I heard an interview w Arooj, Vijay & Shahzad on NPR earlier this week. Talking about the new lp. https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165969423/how-arooj-aftab-vijay-iyer-and-shahzad-ismaily-conjured-love-in-exile

MR BROWN!

Thanks, Brian, will check it out!

That squeaky drum pedal might be on this one. Makes it better. What a beat

Dead & Co started working Stay into their sets toward the end

The Wolf!

Arooj Aftab will be in North Bethesda, MD on April 14 and in Burlington, VT on April 28: https://www.aroojaftab.com/

Finger Poppin' Time is such a great sounding recording.

FOOD FIGHT!

Haha

there is a great reggae cover of that track

do you remember by whom?

Jimi was listning to this one

ill dig it up. I have it on a reggae playlist somewhere

I'll find it on YouTube, Mok

You don't have to bother

Big Boy Pete!

Yeeeeeeeahhh

You sang that perfectly, Christine

1 or 2 early Grateful Dead live versions of Big Boy Pete in the Pigpen era. Right at the begin. 65-67

Can't believe we're coming to the end of 1960 already

Dr John did a great version of Come On 1&2

Thank you, Jerry! Have a good weekend, everybody

great show gracias

Great show Jerry!

Dead&The Band did this one time

Thank you Brian, Maria, Russ, et. al. Have a great weekend