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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Apr 7, 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!

4.7.23 - The 2023 Princeton Jazz Festival Special

During Serenade to a Cuckoo today, we will reveal everything you need to know about the upcoming 2023 Princeton Jazz Festival, and play the music of those featured artists who will be performing. In Jerry's Room, we will celebrate the life of Keith Reid who just passed and was the lyricist for Procol Harum.

12:01 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:22 PM		Gregory Tardy The Intelligent Design Sufficient Grace Wj3 Records 2022
12:30 PM		Michael Dease Doxy Best Next Thing Posi-Tone Records 2022
12:39 PM		Artemis Big Top Artemis
12:46 PM		Jon Irabagon Sundance Rising Sun
1:07 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa On the Dl (with Adam O'Farrill, Matt Mitchell, François Moutin & Rudy Royston) Bird Calls (Bonus Track Edition) [with Adam O'Farrill, Matt Mitchell, François Moutin & Rudy Royston] ACT Music 2015
1:15 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa I'll Remember April Hero Trio Whirlwind Recordings 2020
1:32 PM		Rufus Reid Singing Head Quiet Pride - The Elizabeth Catlett Project Motema Music, LLC 2014
1:40 PM		TanaReid With A Song In My Heart Blue Motion
1:44 PM		Jon Irabagon Bebop Rising Sun
1:47 PM		Gregory Tardy The Omnipresent Cardiologist Sufficient Grace Wj3 Records 2022
1:55 PM		Michael Dease Parker's Brood Best Next Thing Posi-Tone Records 2022
2:07 PM		Procol Harum A Whiter Shade of Pale (50th Anniversary Stereo Mix) A Whiter Shade of Pale (50th Anniversary Stereo Version) - Single Fly Records 2017
2:10 PM		Procol Harum Homburg Hits 'N' Flips 1967-1970 Fly Records 2019
2:12 PM		Procol Harum Conquistador Procol Harum (Remastered) Fly Records 2018
3:06 PM		Procol Harum In Held 'Twas I Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster)
3:06 PM		Procol Harum Shine On Brightly Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
3:07 PM		Procol Harum Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
3:10 PM		Procol Harum Quite Rightly So Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018
3:11 PM		Procol Harum A Salty Dog A Salty Dog A&M 2012
3:11 PM		Procol Harum Wish Me Well Shine On Brightly (2009 remaster) Fly Records 2018

Chat is archived.

Good afternoon everyone, and welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Good day, sir

Hi Mike, still thinking about your dog driving around in the frot seat of your car. Just love it!

He LOVES his rides in the car

He loves cruisin' with his cool Dad.

The local town (Hatboro) has cruise nights and he has his fans there

Probably some female puppies, I'm sure

He is quite the Playa

Theme song already?! Wow, Jerry you're throwing us off!

🐦 🎶

Hi Jerry, Mike & all

Cuckoo cuckoo....

Hi Christine

Hi Christine, Hi Brian. Have to keep everone on their toes! Plus I'm trying to fit three hours into two.

I just had to look up Norman Granz.

Rudresh loved that one, one of the greatest jazz impressarios

Next Saturday will be amazing in Princeton.

Presented Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, etc. Started Verve Records

The musicians are all great and special. No jive will be presented. And it's free

Smalls!

Hey Rob, have you been to Smalls?

🚫 jive

And you can't beat 🆓️

You said it! (and so did I a 100 times. I didn't know abot that icon!)

Rob, thanks for joining in

Good morning Jerry

In Dec I went to Mezzrow which is like Smalls 2 right down the street.

My daughter went to Smalls a few times in college

Nice! The full jazz experience for sure!

Hi James, I've missed you! Was hoping you saw that Jerry's Room today featured one of your bands!

Isaiah Sharkey is playing at Blue Note this month. Think he would be cool to see.

This is Rudresh

soloing

Wow, I had no idea he passed away. Looking forward to it!

How have you been?

That was a fun take on Doxy

Yes, Brian, spirited. I love that song!

Doing good. No complaints. Hope you're doing good too

Good to hear

This is so good

Dud can play!

Dude!

No duds on this show

Hoping to make it out to some of the Princeton Jazz Festival

It's always great to hear you interview Rudresh, Jerry.

I respect him, he is bright and fun. Thank you, Christine!

Getting to hear him is a great opportunity for people in this area and particularly students

ooo i may have to attend the festival for the first time

I heard him a couple years ago and he was great

Hi, Mok. This is right up the old Bluntmaster's alley!

man my car sure smells like the bluntmaster today

That's because you purposely don't open the windows

the ol' hotbox

It's like the old Cheech and Chong movie

lol "are we still driving?"

The bass is quite nice on this one

I don't have the CD in front of me, I'm guessing it is Francois Moutin

Actually, I do have the CD nearbye and it is

Friend of Rudresh, Vijay Iyer, is streaming live tonight from SFJazz: https://www.sfjazz.org/athome/fridays-live/vijay-iyer-trio/

Excellent interview, Jerry!

Thank you, Russ!

Ahhhh...my first slow dance, Fall of 1966

Beautiful! A prom?

No...that can't be tight....Fall of 67 I guess

Fall of 67 so *th grade dace

Niiice!

I love Reid’s elliptical, stately and vaguely psychedelic lyrics!

You are a poet yourself, how beautifully you described him

Fun fact, this is long time WMMR Dj Michael Tearson's favorite band.

This is an excellent choice as opposed to the live version from 72

I only play the hits.

Ha!....indeed

@ Serenade to a Cuckoo w/Jerry Gordon (host) Thanks muchly for the Keith Reid tribute and reading his lyrics for "Whiter Shade of Pale": For a half century - literally - I've thought it went "That our faces turned just ghostly ..." when it's actually the much more compelling "That her face, at first just ghostly, turned a white shade of pale." I'm always learning from "Serenade" and WPRB in general. :-))

And that first album was in "reprocessed stereo"...ugh

I like the organ heavy non orchestrated Conquistador! Weird hearing Gary say con-kwist-a-dor as I was a Spanish major but oh well...

i had a college english prof who said "Don Quix-ote"

Life is like a beanstalk, isn’t it?

Thank you, Richard! I learned about 12 hours before you!

You remember, Mike. Suuucked!

It's either '43' or "the canned salmon' ... can't remember which...

Brian, I was paranoid about saying it the wrong way in front of you!

Beanstokday innit?

Haaa!

I am definitely eating all of my green beans today.

Hey RS, yes, or no nirvana for you!

I'll have to not think about it for a while Jerry. :)

Everyone says .. kwist... oh well.. Brit received pronunciation is weird. Dalay Lammer.. also

and Pizzer

cone-KEEST-ah-door if yer in Madrid tho

That's the South Philadelphia pronounciation

Haha, can I have a glass of wooder

That's the King's English!

and in Castilian?

The jewel is in the lotus in a South Philly pawn shop.

Sorry.. the -DOOR syllable is the stressed one there

Heard good things about the reunion of Procul in early 90s. I think Trower was involved...?

The construction of this song is brilliant!

RS, you are very deep and hip

far out

Ha! You're the one getting all metaphysical here my good sir. But thank you for the lovely compliment.

This show is the hipness of life.

Make love, not war. Don't let the man keep you down. Live and let die.

Mike, Castilian pronounces the letter 's' like 'ss' or 'zz'. Always. There is a misunderstanding about the 'th' sound in Spain... only happens with the letter 'z' and 'c' (c before i or e that is).

True about the misunderstanding

Yea, whenever I hear someone say gazz I still get taken for a loop.

Powerful song, this is

My parents grew up in Jersey City. I am really confused at the east coast reunions after living in Texas and the west coast for 35 tears.

RS, please don't say gazz

LOL Jerry, I do not. :)

Petrol the word is awkward but it makes sense and solves the problem of confusion with the state of matter "gas" .. but we're stuck with "gas" for gasoline in USA Eng. Hard to stop now

Hey y'all, that was a great jawn!

Perfect show!!! It's so great to hear these Procol Harum cuts again!!

Another english the had several meanings

Toadilly great shee-ow !

english word....eesh

haha. Thanks, Lance. Yeah, these are in our DNA now

I remember watching Mad Men & one character they kept calling "sinjin"... what? Saw the credits.. oh.. his first name is St John? What again...

Sinjin Smythe

T's aren't pronounced much anymore

@Brian D, I have never watched Mad Men. Worth a binge?

They'd have trouble asking where Chitch'ster Avenue is near Phila...

O yes Roff! Great ride that show

Madvertising 101... kept waiting for Alfred E Neumann to show up for years but he never did...

Thanks. I was not into much TV stuff for a while.

Thanks for playing In Held Twas I. I saw them perform that at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Philharmonic and a 30 member chorus and Keith did the spoken work portion of the song. It was astounding

And Madmen paid like a quarter of a mil to play The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows

Amazing, James!

Micheal Jackson is spending his heaven bucks.

What was that term again for the In Held Twas I?

Mike, this is why your mother said what she did about your knowledge pool

Ha!....Right!

acrostic

OK. Thanks!

In high school we started smoking Player's Cigarettes because of the cover of this album

That is hip!

Heh...we thought so!

I saw Procol in 1970 at the Spectrum, sandwiched between opening act Leon Russell and headliner Ten Years After. Russell and Procol upstaged TYA.

Thank you Jerry, always great! Chag Pesach kasher vesame'ach!

Well right on bro Rofflestein!!!

LOL!

LOL

I'll be Constanstein

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!

I love it, my fellow Tribesmen!

Maybe Christine, even!

Yes!!

Haha, Mike, glad you enjoyed the show

What an eighth grade memory!