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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Oct 17, 2025 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Jerry Gordon

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

10.17.25 Monk Covers + Steve Miller 2

2 hours of jazz new releases including an hour of Monk covers, followed by 1 hour of Steve Miller Part 2, no hits, just great music!

12:00 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:02 PM		Vibration Society Serenade to a Cuckoo Spirits up Above (feat. Hilton Ruiz, Steve Turre, Junior Cook & Bill Hardman) Squatty Roo Records 2017
12:17 PM		David Sneider Hackensack Introducing Cellar Live 2025
12:20 PM		Mike Clark Epistrophy (feat. Eddie Henderson, Patrice Rushen, Henry "the Skipper" Franklin & Craig Handy) Itai Doshin (feat. Eddie Henderson, Patrice Rushen, Henry "the Skipper" Franklin & Craig Handy) Wide Hive Records 2025
12:25 PM		Carmen Staaf Monk's Mood Sounding Line Sunnyside Records 2025
12:31 PM		Peter Brendler & Jon Irabagon Reflections Two--Part Inventions Irabbagast Records 2025
12:35 PM		Steve Davis Ask Me Now We See Smoke Sessions 2024
12:52 PM		Josh Lawrence Light Blue Still We Dream 2025
12:54 PM		Eric McPherson Skippy Double Bass Quartet
12:59 PM		Tyreek McDole Ugly Beauty Open Up Your Senses Artwork Records 2025
1:11 PM		Pasquale Grasso Pannonica Solo Be-Bop! Masterworks 2025
1:14 PM		Joe Lovano & Hank Jones Four In One (Live) Kids: Live at Dizzy's Club Blue Note Records 2007
1:21 PM		Miki Yamanaka Trinkle Tinkle Chance Cellar Live 2024
1:29 PM		Holly Cole Comin' Home Baby Dark Moon (Expanded) Rumpus Records 2025
1:37 PM		Eric Alexander Is It You Like Sugar Cellar Live 2025
1:43 PM		Thom Rotella Lazy Afternoon Right Time Left HighNote Records 2025
1:46 PM		Sam Dillon Have You Met Miss Jones My Ideal Cellar Live 2025
2:06 PM		Johnny "Guitar" Watson Gangster of Love Gangster of Love King Records 1958
2:08 PM		Steve Miller Band Gangster of Love (Live) Ultimate Hits (Deluxe Edition) Steve Miller - Owned 2017
2:19 PM		Steve Miller Ya Ya Born 2 B Blue Capitol Records 1988
2:19 PM		Steve Miller Born to Be Blue Born 2 B Blue Capitol Records 1988
2:23 PM		Steve Miller Filthy McNasty Born 2 B Blue Capitol Records 1988
2:31 PM		Steve Miller Red Top Born 2 B Blue Capitol Records 1988
2:34 PM		Steve Miller Band Ooh Poo Pah Doo Bingo! (Special Edition) Steve Miller - Owned 2010
2:35 PM		Steve Miller Band Come On (Let the Good Times Roll) Bingo! (Special Edition) Steve Miller - Owned 2010
2:36 PM		Steve Miller Band Drivin' Wheel Bingo! (Special Edition) Steve Miller - Owned 2010
7:28 PM		Steve Miller Band Further On Up the Road Bingo! (Special Edition) Steve Miller - Owned 2010
7:28 PM		Steve Miller Band Look On Yonder Wall Bingo! (Special Edition) Steve Miller - Owned 2010
7:30 PM		Steve Miller Band All Your Love (I Miss Loving) [Alternate Version] Welcome to the Vault Steve Miller 2019
7:31 PM		David K Matthews with Steve Miller One Mint Julip The Fantasy Vocal Sessions

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hi Rick, Happy Friday!

It could just be me and you, listening to Monk covers!

Starting off with the theme is major!

Needed to make room for the Monk!

Hi Jerry & all 🎶 🐦 There's that theme song again!

OK, now we're safe, Rick. Christine is here! Hi Christine!

Hey Christine!

✨️🎷 🎶 📻 🎧

Yesss!

Hey Jerry, still here.

Hi Rick, Hi Jerry, Hi Richard! We made it to Friday.

Hi Richard, thanks for joining today! Glad to see you!

Just in time for that song... Hi folks

Will it be psychedelic Steve miller

Great news, @Jerry. We'll look forward to Streams of Consciousness on Wednesday.

Haha, Christine. You're simply the best.

Space Cowboy, hi. Mostly blues, some jazz, but all great, I promise. No filler.

Hi Benj, how are you, thanks for being here!

I hope everyone enjoys these new (some "recent") Monk covers!

A fun arrangement here

I dig the arrangement and the "trading 4's".

Serenade to a Cuckoo - high brow, informed listeners.

They may or may not play some Monk but the Artifacts Trio, featuring flutist Nicole Mitchell, cellist Tomeka Reid and drummer Mike Reed will be at Solar Myth in Philly tonight and tomorrow: https://www.arsnovaworkshop.org/programs/artifacts-trio/

Very nice, Russ! Enjoy yourself, should be very heady and good!

Good info @Russell

Afternoon all, excited for the "No King" rallies!

Hey Stephen, nice to see you!

Glad to be back.

Hello kingless ones... Unless you listening in the UK or something...

He is Roffling and Marching, still defiant after all these years Mr. Roffled Synapse, like almost all Cuckoo listeners.

Hi Roffle

Our royaly rolls more on the King of Swing format... :)

Hi Christine!

Christine schwings consistently, especially to percussion!

Up the turnpike, the Otherlands Trio with Stephan Crump on acoustic bass, Darius Jones on alto saxophone and Eric McPherson on drums will be celebrating their recent recording at the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan tonight: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/otherlands-trio-oct-17-2025

Jerry, if you are in contact with Will Constantine, please send him my regards. He is sorely missed, with his encyclopedic knowledge, especially Latin Jazz.

I already did that, Richard! He was pleased to hear that.

And the Yuhan Su Octet with Alex LoRe on alto saxophone, Anna Webber on tenor saxophone, Matt Mitchell on piano, Miles Okazaki on guitar, Marty Kenney on bass, James Paul Nadien on drums, Shinya Lin on live electronic processing with MAX/MSP and Yuhan Su on vibraphone with effect pedals does the same at the same place tomorrow: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/yuhan-su-oct-18-2025. Jazz Gallery shows are live-streamed!

Ding, Ding, Ding! The winner!

Hope to see lots of Cuckoo listeners at the No King rallys tomorrow, Stephen

Would that be King Pleasure or King Curtis?

Thanks so much.

Every time you mention him I tell him!

Rick, that's BB King, Albert King, Freddie King with vocals by King Tubby.

Jerry, you go to the head of the class!

Gotta keep an eye on those Kings...

Larry King couldn't make it

He was suspended

Also suspendered

Haaaaaaa!

Wait, weren't you Roffled Synapses 20 minutes ago? LOVE Roffle House!

Under new management. Changing up the menu. :)

That was amazing! Like an outfit change! I hope my sensitive stomach doesn't get roffled or start with the synapses.

OUR staff are trained in the gastronomical sciences to deal with any situation.

Pianist Kevin Hays; saxophonists Joe Lovano (wed – sat) and Miguel Zenon (sun); bassist Rick Rosato; and drummer Obed Calvaire play Monk all this weekend at Smoke Jazz Club in NYC: https://tickets.smokejazz.com/. Livestream!

It's time to swing!

Back to the swing rotation, two more

This is def a schwinger by a schwingin' saxophonist

Always nice to hear "Miss Jones" and this tenor is cookin'!

Yessssir!!!

Rick, you know your stuff!

This is a swingin' show, to be sure 🎶🎷

Thanks, Christine. I have great expectations for Steve Miller Part II! Hope you like!

hey all

Hi Bruce!

steves first record was the goldberg miller blues band the track was called the mother song. there is a clip of them on hullabaloo from 65 on youtube

I've never heard this side of Steve Miller. Enlightening!

For years I knew I liked it some but I didn't know how much. Now I like it alot!

I happen to know you like the next song

Indeed!

This one too

This is too good!!!

Jerry, I would like to recommend for your consideration in future Jazz presentation "The Bad Plus" trio featuring Ethan Iverson on piano, the strongest left hand in Jazz. This trio in no longer in service to us and has become a quartet without Ethan. It is just not the same thing.

Thank you, Richard!

Enjoyed that not so spacy cowboy run way more than I thought I would. Thanks Jerry! Always bringing it. Have a great week!

So cool to hear Steve Miller stuff that's not Joker and Take the money and run!

Great Roffle, thank you! Steve Miller is a star! I debated whether people would be mad that I didn't play the hits, but... fuggedaboudid!

David K. Mathews also played with Tower of Power!

Wow, thank you, Rick!!!

It's so much better that you *didn't* play the hits @Jerry. His other songs are so much more interesting.

Thank you Jerry; have a good weekend, everybody!

Thanks, Christine, it was a concern. Glad you liked. Thanks for listening, have a great weekend.

Thank you, EVERYBODY!

Jerry, it was a real treat to hear all the new interpretations of the great tunes by the great Monk! And you schooled me on a side of Steve Miller that I never knew. All good stuff! JG with the GM!!! Everybody enjoy your weekend!