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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Apr 14, 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!

4.14.23 Princeton Jazz Festival Part II, Jerry's Dorm

A further look into all the musicians playing at Princeton University's Jazz Festival, followed by one hour spent in Jerry's Dorm 1969

12:01 PM		The Claire Daly Band Serenade to a Cuckoo Rah! Rah! Ride Symbol Records 2020
12:15 PM		Gregory Tardy A Great Cloud of Witnesses If Time Could Stand Still Wj3 Records 2020
12:15 PM		Gregory Tardy Firm Roots Standards & More SteepleChase 2013
12:27 PM		Michael Dease One For Dease Best Next Thing Posi-Tone Records 2022
12:31 PM		Michael Dease With Love Best Next Thing Posi-Tone Records 2022
12:42 PM		Renee Rosnes Silk Kinds of Love Smoke Sessions 2021
12:53 PM		Nicole Glover The Twilight Zone Strange Lands Savant 2021
12:57 PM		Alexa Tarantino Breaking Cycles Clarity Posi-Tone Records 2020
1:04 PM		Ingrid Jensen, Christine Jensen, Ben Monder, Fraser Hollins & John Wikan Margareta Infinitude Whirlwind Recordings 2016
1:13 PM		Jon Irabagon Sprites Behind the Sky Irabbagast Records 2015
1:25 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-pak Coalition Snap Agrima
1:32 PM		Rudresh Mahanthappa Ring of Fire Hero Trio Whirlwind Recordings 2020
1:37 PM		Adam O'Farrill stakra Visions of Your Other Biophilia Records 2021
1:41 PM		Matt Mitchell Gluts A Pouting Grimace (feat. Kim Cass, Kate Gentile, Ches Smith, Dan Weiss, Patricia Brennan, Katie Andrews, Anna Webber, Jon Irabagon, Ben Kono, Sara Schoenbeck, Scott Robinson & Tyshawn Sorey) Pi Recordings 2017
1:49 PM		Rufus Reid Prelude to Recognition Quiet Pride - The Elizabeth Catlett Project Motema Music, LLC 2014
1:51 PM		Rufus Reid Recognition Quiet Pride - The Elizabeth Catlett Project Motema Music, LLC 2014
2:00 PM		MC5 Kick Out the Jams The Big Bang! Best of the MC5 Rhino Atlantic 2005
2:09 PM		The Mandrake Memorial Earthfriend Prelude Puzzle Poppy
2:09 PM		The Mandrake Memorial Earthfriend Puzzle Poppy
2:13 PM		SRC Medley: In the Hall of the Mountain King/Bolero Milestones Capitol Records (CAP) 1969
2:20 PM		Aum Aum Resurrection Master Classics Records 2011
2:25 PM		Bob Dylan If Dogs Run Free New Morning Columbia/Legacy 1970
2:29 PM		The Stooges I Wanna Be Your Dog The Stooges Rhino/Elektra 1969
2:33 PM		Spirit Ground Hog Clear Ode/Epic/Legacy 1996
2:35 PM		Grateful Dead China Cat Sunflower Aoxomoxoa Rhino/Warner Records 1969
2:40 PM		The Moody Blues Om In Search of the Lost Chord (50th Anniversary Edition) UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2018
2:45 PM		Chicago South California Purples (Remastered) Chicago Transit Authority Rhino 1969
2:56 PM		B.B. King The Thrill Is Gone Completely Well Geffen* 2015

Chat is archived.

What a beautiful day! Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room!

Hi all

Hi Mike!

Hey Jerry...it's that time again!

Hi Mike & all

Hi Christine!

Hi Christine

This weather is so great, I hope it stays this way tomorrow!

Not looking that way

They predicted rain a week ago!

Good afternoon, sir. Looking forward to another heaping of great jazz to get me through my work day!

Hi Stephen, we're going to work you up for tomorrow's festival

Cool!

I was just looking at the NOAA weather forecast for the Princeton Jazz Fest...

Cuckoo for pledge drives!

Hey everyone!

Theme song in the books! 🐦 🎶

Hi Parrscream, welcome! Glad you are here!

Christine this early theme thing is becoming a regular happenstance!

Hi Brian, how are you! I will be interested in your opinions of the music today

Jerry, you're training us to expect the theme song right in the beginning now.

It's temporary. The longer I go without talking the better I like it.

Happy to be here! The weather has warmed and I'm back in my garage office with the door open and WPRB on blast. Life is good.

Mike, I talked to your cousin Will last night and he says hello

Parrscream, that is almost heaven!

Very cool!

Tardy stuff sounded great!

Will C! Pledge drive guest one day maybe? We hope....

Or a return via The Barge?

If I recall, Jerry and Will did a show during a drive.....some years ago

I think The Barge is a possibility. I hope so. His schedule at work is strict, we won't be able to make a Friday visit work but perhaps in the future.

Will and I did a bunch of drive shows together. He is a friend I value very much.

He is refreshing, a palette cleanser, a down to earth straight ahead guy with great musical knowledge and humor. The same kind of blood is in cousin Mike.

Thank you, sir

No question!

Always looked forward to Blues Bop & Beyond every week. Last heard him when I was on vacation in FL 3 years ago in early March 2020. Then..... big changes

Incredible the damages and changes from Covid.

And of course Montuno, Mambo y Mas w DJ Enrico Calamari!!

That was a great show...loved it

Hi Jerry, Hello Cuckoo's! Yeah, I am sure still trying to get over my COVID conditioning and think about going to venues again without big worries.

Good day all

Enjoying this music

FYI the website says: In the event of rain on Saturday, April 15, Jazz Fest will take place as planned, as the performers and the audience will be covered.

RS, people are still getting it. No way will I pooh-pooh your trepidation.

Hi Rob, glad you are digging the music, thank you!

Heaven = Warm Weather + Garage Setup + Garage Open + Jerry on WPRB :-)

That sounds ideal, @Parrscream

Dammit, Alexa 😡 She's a wiretap.

It is the most ideal way to work Christine. The only thing more ideal would be if I WASN'T working. Alexa.... Cancel Work!

Beautiful, Parrscream. I hope there are no blowers out there today

No, I don't trust the Alexa behind me.

The least they could do is give us Friday's off

Exactly Rob! At least the Fridays when my kids are off and it is beautiful out!

Alexas and other smart speakers make me uneasy.

Talking about work, covid, etc. one of my daughters has been ordered back to work at the "office", over an hour away and a place she hasn't even visited since getting this job.

It is said that smart speakers can and do suck up information.

Ugh....that's a long drive

Yeah that is a long drive.

My company is about to require more attendance in person. Waiting on the details. All the large companies are requiring more in office

We're talking about going from the mountains into Manhattan.

yeesh

I feel bad for her; she doesn't want to leave.

Can't she take the train?

You know, driving to the train, etc. Plus she has a dog!

a post covid-born dog

I took the train for years into NYC. I thought it was better than a long driving commute

That would be nice having a dog in the office

Jerry - Are you anywhere near the South Jersey/Philly area? We have openings at my company. But we also do have mandatory days in office but it is only Tuesday and Wednesday.

My smart speaker was playing Serenade to a Cuckoo today before I told it to do so!

Or I guess I should say is she anywhere near that area?

Layoffs coming soon at my employer (again most large companies doing that too). Hopefully not impacted, but might need to reach out to you Parrscream (LOL)

@Russell, And you just know that the Chinese State Security Ministry, the NSA and the KGB or whatever it is called now has ears on Siri and Alexa. I never use them myself. I have enough personalize al-gore-rythyms out there me thinks.

Hi Parrscream, very very nice of you. No, out of state. I wish she was, she would be closer to me! Thank you

Sure! Thought it was worth a shot! Long commutes are the worst! I've been there before.

But RS, I like Russ' smart speaker.

Well, they are not completely without merit in such a case in the right hands. :)

RS, I was wondering why Jerry was speaking in Mandarin!

Haaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

😄

Not a joke!

When the Chinese Opera starts I will bat an eye for sure.

I refer to my friends' smart speakers as wiretaps. Like, "Hey wiretap, can cats eat pancakes?"

MY ENTIRE APARTMENT IS ONE BIG MICROPHONE! - David the Weatherman (Negativland)

🎙💥

There was a smart speaker in an AirBnB that I stayed in. I was convinced that the owner was spying on me from his place upstairs. I unplugged it.

We. Want. Information. (and then we'll sell it!)

Brian, I am not a number…

oooohhh I like this right outta the gate!

Yesssss....very cool

Rudresh M. is always doing something interesting. I hope it's not pouring rain tomorrow.

Agreed, Christine, me too.

Rez Abbasi is a terrific guitarist, love him

love has a fiery ring

💍🔥

Interesting comment!

followed by Christine, master of the icons

Merl Kilgore and June Carter scored gold. Then Johnny had the brilliant touch adding Mariachi horns to a great country song

or maybe... Johnny and Merle actually wrote it and gave June credit... disputed stories on that one

good info, Brian

Oh for the das of the echoplex!

days

Nice preview of the festival. Will PRB be present?

Whoa...echooooo

There's that Echplex

Echoplex

6️⃣9️⃣‼️ That’s my signature number!

I don’t know what I’m talking about. Hi, DJ Jerry Gordon! Great show!

Mr. Mal, great to see you! Yes, 1969!

The radio friendly version, eh?

Is that a new intro to Jerry's Room? Hi Jerry! This song never gets old

That's called the Jerry Gordon edit.

*puts towel firmly under door....

Made me think of the lyric, "Before I talk, I should read a book." ~B-52's 👻 Hey MrM 💀!

KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERS AND FATHERS!!!

Yeah....MC% got very little airplay here

Jerry- how about featuring Nicky Hopkins one of these Fridays in the future?

Proud to say I saw them in Ann Arbor. Nothing pumps the adrenalin like the uncensored version, but nothin' wrong with the rage against the machine version!

Hi Jay, I am proud to tell you I did an hour show exclusively on Nicky Hopkins when he passed. Loved the man! I will again one of these days

Missed that-thanks!

This is my favorite psychedelic album ever, perfection to me!

Amazing they weren't bigger

Mike, even though they were so "localized" to the Phila/NJ area, I found this in a record store in Madison, didn't know it had come out.

Randy Monaco, what a psychedelic vocalist, died very young

Wow....that's not just around the corner

One of my favorite Jerry's Room shows featured MM

I have multiple copies of each of their albums because I couldn't imagine life without them

I get that

Haha. The master tapes of all the recordings on Poppy records vanished a long time ago. The only existing CD copies of their three albums are taken from LPs.

and ya gotta have a bolero beat on yer album...

Hahahaha. Yesssss! from Jeff Beck to SRC

Now we're getting psychedeli-sized

SRC another Midwest band?

Yes

But played here in Philly

Cool....I have no memory of them

The albums were played, the band didn't play here I don't think

They were on 1 or 2 of the "underground" shows

This band got played absolutely nowhere

Joe Walsh/ James Gang threw a little Ravel in the mix too.... some versions of the lp had it snipped out later due to Ravel estate. Then it got added back in on some versions... (The Bomber/Closet Queen from the Rides Again lp --- little Vince Guaraldi in there too)

Heh....I guess it didn't stick with me

Mike, it didn't get played THAT much.

Brian, more good info

Guitar solo from heaven

James Gang Rides Again lp recorded in 69 I see but not released until 70 (love that lp and Joe W solo lps So What and Smoker You Drink... sunny day, headphones, long walk... perfect lps)

guitar solo LSD breakthrough

... for real

Bobby!

It was this song that made me buy the album

Al Kooper adding the piano icing

Bobby Zimmerman attains cosmic consciousness.

New favorite Bob song fersher

Maeretha Stewart has Sesame Street / Muppets credits I just read!!!

Oh that Zimmy

she's doing the great vocalizations that make this so much fun

Hi Guelo, yes this is the one!

Not this one

THE STOOGES❣️

New Morning. Can't go wrong. Some of the best studio musicians as was the usual w/Bob at that time

One of Iggy & Stooges best!!!!

🔥 🔥🔥

How fun is Jerry’s Dorm!?! 🤩

Another little known Midwest band :)

I want to time travel to there!

Mr. Malcontent, don't get crazy on the sofa

No, of course you can!

I think the sofa needs a new cover

lots of holes and ripple stains

New song! New topic!

🤠🤠🤠

Right....Ripple in the Midwest but eventually no longer sold in Pa

I traveled with my roommates and we sat on bleachers in a high school gymasium in Bloomington Illinois to see Spirit!

Oooooh....how was the sound?....eh....you guys probably didn't care

China Cat!

A band I never got into

Brian D, tell us a GRATEFUL DEAD story you’ve never told us!

Had to make it over to the record player to lift the cartridge when it got to "What's Become Of the Baby". Too intense, I didn't want to lose anbody.

Same here, Mike Constantine 🥺 I just look like a dead head 💀

Weird hearing it without I Know You Rider to follow... Not much into studio albums Grateful Dead. Live it where it's at.

Ha!!

Moodies

Mr. M, from your picture you look more like a Black Sabbath fan!

When you played Aum, I thought of this song

🕉

I like it!

🪷

Christine the master

Also because I’ve lost my mind and with these empty sockets I must be blind… I am IRON MAN

Grateful Dead and the Moody Blues in the same set is a gateway to psychedelics for sure. :)

Serenity NOW 😤

Hahahaha, gateway music

🅾️Ⓜ️

Mr. Malcontent has gone spiritual on us

must quell seething rage

Must tamp down discontent

What an album this was!

-ᎷяM sure has the avatar that says he is well on his way there.

All static in montco :(

I'm not playing rage against the machine when Mr. M is in the house

South WestSiiidddeee Purples ☮️♋️☸️⚛️♏️

Haha 😂

That's bad news Tyler, thanks for letting me know, I will report it

I'd BLAST Free Form Guitar and my parents would have none of it

Haha, you were such a troublemaker

ChristineBoo sees me 👻🖤

Always

Good use of iconography Mr. M

Hi, Boo! 👻

Terry Kath was a beast

so powerful

neighborhood is enjoying this show....

Bikes about charged up. River Trail time draws nigh! Thanks for another very cool show Jerry!

DJ Jerry Gordon! Super Show! Many thanks! Big cheers! Kind regards to you!

Thanks Jerry!

Cheers to all the Dears, especially those with Big Ears and Cold Beers and Fast Gears! 🖤💀

Thanks Russ, RS, Mr M, Mike, Christine, Rob, Brian

Thrill is gone cause the show is over

Excellent show....Thank you, Jerry! 💯

B.B. KING 👑♥️🎸

Great time today Jerry! Lot of my birth year repped today. And the Princeton Jazz Fest preview was great!

Thanks, everybody! Have a great weekend!

Thanks, Brian