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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Oct 24, 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!

10.24.25 New Jazz + October birthdays

Two hours of great new jazz releases followed an hour medley of rock, pop, blues, and R&B artists whose birthday is in the first half of October.

12:00 PM		Jakob Bro, Wadada Leo Smith & Marcus Gilmore Yoyogi Park Dream Murasaki Loveland Music 2025
12:11 PM		Charles Lloyd Hymn To The Mother, for Zakir Figure In Blue Blue Note Records 2025
12:20 PM		Patricia Brennan Antlia Of the Near and Far Pyroclastic Records 2025
12:27 PM		daoud mathilde ok ACT Music 2025
12:32 PM		Jane Bunnett Serenade To A Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1993
12:53 PM		Ted Piltzecker Peace Peace Vibes OA2 Records 2025
12:54 PM		Nat Adderley Jr. Trio Invitation Took so Long Nat Adderley Jr. Trio 2025
12:57 PM		Mike Clark I Shot The Sheriff (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
1:05 PM		Jane Bunnett Illusion Suite (feat. Dean Bowman, Stanley Cowell, Larry Cramer, Kieran Overs & Dewey Redman) Spirituals & Dedications Justin Time Records Inc. 2002
1:20 PM		Urszula Dudziak Night In Tunisia Midnight Rain
1:25 PM		Brandon Sanders Soul Eyes Lasting Impression Savant 2025
1:46 PM		Kenny Barron Sunshower (feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant) Songbook Artwork Records 2025
1:46 PM		Thom Rotella Willow Weep for Me Right Time Left HighNote Records 2025
1:55 PM		Grant Stewart Nefertiti Next Spring Cellar Live 2025
1:57 PM		Jerome Sabbagh Lone Jack (feat. Ben Monder, Joe Martin & Nasheet Waits) Stand Up! (feat. Ben Monder, Joe Martin & Nasheet Waits) Analog Tone Factory 2025
2:06 PM		Richard Hell & The Voidoids Blank Generation (Remastered) Blank Generation (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) Rhino/Warner Records 1977
2:08 PM		The Temptations Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) Psychedelic Soul Motown 1970
2:10 PM		Duke Robillard & His All-Star Band Watching the River Flow Six Strings of Steel
2:16 PM		Wishbone Ash The King Will Come Argus (Remastered) Geffen* 1972
2:30 PM		The Police Roxanne The Police (Remastered) A&M 1978
2:30 PM		Millie Small My Boy Lollipop Ska's the Limit 1959-1964, Vol. 1 Mercury Records 1964
2:30 PM		Donny Hathaway The Ghetto (Live) Live Rhino Atlantic 1972
2:54 PM		Los Lobos Mustang Sally Miss Congeniality
2:54 PM		Average White Band School Boy Crush Cut the Cake Rhino Atlantic 1975
2:55 PM		Heatwave The Groove Line Central Heating Epic 1978

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo, everybody!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Happy Friday indeed

Hey Rick, Happy Friday! Mike, thank you!

Hey Mike!

Rick, I hope there' enough schwing here for you.

Jerry, I have my seat belt fastened.

Hi Rick, Jerry

Greetings to Gordski and all his hipsters,flipsters,and finger popping daddies.Knock your lobes to the great music to enfold

Good! Rick, I learn fascinating Beatles stuff from Mike. He most recently told me about the genesis of the song "Why Don't We Do It In the Road"! Fascinating!

I like Mike but I hate that song

Hi Patrick! Can I use that as an introduction on the 2025 Cuckoo Senior Citizen Performance Tour?

For later period Beatles, most songs have a story behind them.

But why didn't civilian learn them before?

Like the story behind Savoy Truffle!

Right!

50 years ago a veritable feast of local entertainment options. Gladys Knight and the Pips. Lily Tomlin,Maynard Ferguson. Sam Rivers.Gato Barbieri. Richie Havens.Ahmad Jamal. Toots and the Maytals. War. And Ralph Nader debating Buckminster Fuller

You three have consistently been able to withstand the trials and tribulations of participating in the chat! Thank you! The Loud Minority, but not in the Nixonian sense.

I would never expect Ralph Nader and Buckminster Fuller being in the same room

I took a date to a Maynard Ferguson concert at the Walnut Street Theater - and she fell asleep during it. Nothing like the impossible happening in front of your eyes.

War, I think. Where was Sam Rivers?

Nice track!

Thanks, Bike R! A tribute to Zakir Hussein. Brand new.

Great show as always Jerry. So good to hear you today

Rick, so that was your first and last date with her?

Adam, you are the best!

Hows everyone doing today

yep.

Hey Adam!

Doing good

Sam rivers was in Russell’s country the New Foxhole. On locust Walk. Mike the 70s were great for open dialogue. Also that weekend appearances by Jimmy Breslin and Nikki Giovanni. Today it’s all echo chambers

So true Patrick

No matter who was performing, who naps at a musical concert (except when I took my kid to hear classical music performances on Saturday mornings. She napped also.

I fell asleep during a Jerry Garcia show

Patrick, I anxiously await your book of quotes, comparable to the Chairman's "Little Red Book"

Not proud of it

Mike, please explain how that happened?

I went to see the opening act, Levon Helm and the RCO Allstars which was great.....Jerry wasn't my cuppa

Wow.

Sleeping at a James Taylor concert is considered a requirement.

Hahaha! In the book!

I'd fall asleep before I got there....

Patricia Brennan week at the Stone, November 12-15: http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php?month=1

I probably shouldn’t repeat this since the deep state has erased and deleted the file but 50 years ago a crazed Jerry Blavat. Attempted to assassinate Gerald R. Ford who was saved by the quick actions by store owner Jerry gordon

I fell asleep with 150 others waiting on the floor for Sly to show up at a small club in Madison, which he never did

He was gonna take out the yon President?

Apparently the Ford administration was cracking down hard on DJS who talked over the music!!

I don't think Jerry ever hit the post once

I took away his heater. Plus he thought Ford was J Edgar Hoover visiting some family in South Philly

I think it was Hoover's dressmaker

Hey Russ, thank you for that commercial announcement

That trick never works!

Even the commercials on this show are classic! Bullwinkle- oh yeah!

Beware the Metal Munching Moon Mice

In a better world Serenade would be sponsored by Krass Brothers

The Chat of the Stars

Good day, Jerry, back for more. I put in a word to Jon Solomon to try for more Jazz at WPRB and also wrote to the manager.

Two months until Solomon's Xmas show....yeesh

Krass Brothers lives upon the sartorial stylings of Jamaldeen Tacoma

Pyroclastic is volcanic!

This tune is one of Horace Silver's best, in my humble opinion.

@russell you said it!

I always wanted to look like Jamaladeen Tacuma, but when I bought my Bar Mitizvah suit at krass Bros they made shop out of the "husky" section. Humiliating.

That's too funny, Jerry.

A great one for sure, Rick, but interestingly enough it came from an album that was never a popular one.

Me too....always in the husky section

Yeah, Rick, whenever they said Husky I just cringed. It used to make me want to roll up in a ball in the dressing room.

Mike, you were so tall, how were you ever a husky?

Enough so that Mother put me on a diet Summer of 66

Thanks, Richard.

Rich, I did insert your weekly regimen of B3 into the show for you, I hope it shows up before 1:30

I was once walking at 49 th and Baltimore Avenue . I could see Jamaldeen and his lime suit at 43 and Baltimore at the farm market

Rick, not Rich on that last one

Sounds good, Dr. Jerry!

B3 ? Sounds like Trudy Pitts in the house!

Patrick, they didn't have any lime-green suits in the husky section. Nor would my barber give me his haircut.

More Richard’s than Bob Newhart had Darryl’s!

Love that story how Jamaldeen made bank when those Australian guys asked him to come lay the Jazz Man on their kids show..

Speaking of Baltimore Ave., I got a pizza at a shop near 45th & Baltimore. On my way back to my apartment, I guy jogging toward me took the pizza right out of my hands - and was gone!

I guess he was really hungry.

I had my Halloween bag of candy stolen from me one year.

That sucks, Rick.

I worked in a hoagie shop on Baltimore Avenue near 49th. Long before Baltimore Avenue was hip.

Were you making hoagies?

Or stealing them?

Koch's Deli near 43rd St. was the best. They would had out free slices of meat while you were waiting in line.

Yeah, until I sliced off the top of my finger on the deli slicer

Has it since been replaced?

Yeah, it was superficial

LT playboy lounge

Blood on the Bologna!

Hi Jerry! I was just about to ask if this was the Bob Marley "I Shot The Sherif" when I heard the key/title melody. Quite a different take than what I'm familiar with, which is good. Also, happy birthday to all the Octoberites

Was that a promo or a funeral parlor Announcement?

And hi everyone

43 rd and i freakin forget

west philly

My fellow 70s cultural mavens. Can anyone explain Mac Davis.Terrible singer , lousy actor not particularly handsome. How was he such a big desk?

Hi Rob! In Jerry's Room today, all Octoberite birthdays present in a Cuckoorian medley

They had a big article him phila mag about Baltimore Ave. all the businesses are shutting down. People like living in the area but don’t shop on the ave

Mac Davis had hair so thick, on his head and his chest, that it looked like a rug.

The Ethiopian restaurant has some delicious fried chicken

I wonder why people wouldn't shop where they live?

There was a Chinese hoagie shop on Baltimore near 42nd St. The chop suey hoagies were wonderful.

Rick, you were quite the urban hipster!

Hey aiffrig!

Well Jerry the Old Citu north of Market crowd has big bucks but no successful bars or restaurants Market to vine Front to fourth. Always mystified me.

I absolutely loved living in west philly for 4 years.

Russell, the title of your autobiography: Blood On the Bologna

my wife won't shop , it's the wild west in the free state of florida down here

And Dock Street Brewing had great beer in the old firehouse at 50th and Baltimore.

You can’t beat a tofu hoagie from the Wu off of 43 and Baltimore

Aiffrig, where are you?

clearwater

Patrick you've gotten some good ones in there today

just catching up on the mac davis commens. lol

Aiffrig, what is the Clearwater vibe?

why? oh why?!

Bike R, his hair was so thick it was where dandruff went to die.

Carbon Copy Brewing is in the firehouse now: https://www.carboncopyphilly.com/

And how is CC?

prb, kdu , fmu ,muh ,lvr no place like home

They got no kultcha down there

But at least you can wear a bathing suit full time

Not bad but as outstanding as Dock Street.

Not as outstanding

Hey Bike it burns me up . That goober had his own variety show while Byard Lancaster and Rufus Harley were on the street playing for quarters in their hats

Wow a brewery where you can wear your bathing suit!! I would clear that place out quick.Marco Polo!!!!

Happy birthday, Ursula!

Ursula!

She was pretty dang good!

Mike, non jazz is coming soon!

I thought it was Yma.Sumac.

Price Myshkin Imperial Stout by Dock Street is one of my all time favorites.

This vocalist really has it going on!

About 40 minutes I'd say

Urzsula! God damn spell check can’t handle the Polish !

u have to go to venice (south of sarasota ) to see male thongs on the beach, never aniwhere else so far

I'll pass!

That’s a beach I would pay the fee to get out of.

hahaha. I would think you two Adonis's would want to go there and show off.

84 degrees and hot in the sun , life is unfair

I don't want to ruin anyone's lunch

Hey Jerry I got the dates mixed up for the Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia. Talk about embarrassing

Don't you have to throw the bike away when you're done?

"Soul Eyes" is another great tune. I'm diggin' this interpretation.

Sports talk YSP can’t find a distributor for its Wing Bowl documentary. Hard to believe. Who wouldn’t want to sit through a film with Fat Guys , gluttony, vomit and Angelo Cataldis face. ??

Hey gang - just in time to discuss Philly Naked Bike Ride - I wanted to do it and finally the year I was able to make the schedule work, my 19 year old daughter and her friends decided to do it.... So I wisely stayed home

A friend once wanted to go....no....just no

Jerry twice this week - what a joy

Thanks for the suggestion, Jerry. But Blood on the Bologna is the title of the next Dylan Bootleg release.

I have to bow out early today. I was able to catch half of the show, but I did get 100% of listening pleasure! Jerry, you are the man! JG with the GM! Everybody enjoy your weekend.

VC, how are ya?

On a whim we went to Tommy Emmanuel at the Keswick last night - I did not really know his stuff - Wiw

Jerry biggest Phillies mistake this year was getting rid of Buddy Kennedy. He gets a ring either way. Appeared for both the Dodgers and Blue jays.

Wow - one guy with a guitar and a good light show can really pull it off

Can’t wait to see the Blue Jays kick the Dodgers tonight!

canada

Thanks, Rick!

Russ I went to two Blue Jays games on vacation. What a great fun place . Underrated stadium.

Jerry, excellent

Thanks, Rob!

Patrick, did you have a room at the Marriott？

3 martini lunch and i ain't goin back , it's friday

My favorite lunch!!! Slightly dirty, olives

Oh yes....a Kettle One dirty martini

Yowsah

don't eat the mints by the facilities

Russ I actually stayed in Markham Ontario home of the best Chinese cuisine outside of China

Matana Roberts: Coin Coin / The Echo Sessions at the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan tonight and tomorrow: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/matana-roberts-oct-24-2025

I don't eat peanuts, mints, potpourri , or anything touched or breathed upon by other people

Joel Ross and Friends at the Jazz Gallery next Wednesday through Saturday: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/joel-ross-oct-29-2025 Livestreams!

That's gonna be great

Not jazz but still great: Le Vent du Nord: Music of Quebec at Roulette in Brooklyn tomorrow: https://roulette.org/event/le-vent-du-nord-music-of-quebec-rba/

October is no joke!

John Lennon 10/9 Fela Kuti 10/15 Bob Weir 10/16 Ziggy Marley 10/17 Chuck Berry 10/18 Peter Tosh 10/19 Tom Petty 10/20

Nice, Mok. Thank you. You cherry-picked the month! I will make sure to include most of them next week!

October 20: Anour Brahem, Jelly Roll Morton, Eddie Harris October 21: Elvin Bishop, Steve Cropper, Dizzy Gillespie, Fred Hersh October 22: Jane Bunnett, Ursula Dudziak, October 23: Sonny Criss, Dianne Reeves & Ernie Watts October 25: Jimmy Heath, Robin Eubanks

October 30: Clifford Brown

The Beatles new records a gas

MOKs best avatar ever!!

one last soaking of the Beatles fan wallets.

Is it out?

Mike, two songs from now should make you laugh

The one after this.

This is great also

lol!

Thanks, Russ, Mok

11/21 for that Beatles Vol 4. almost there

Thanks, Mok

Mok, do you know this?

I got an advance copy and the most interesting thing is the backing track for Baby You're a Rich Man

new to my ears

1972

A place in Newfoundland: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2G4H3NT/a-sign-to-jerrys-nose-on-the-port-au-port-peninsula-in-newfoundland-canada-2G4H3NT.jpg

Mike, I assume this was one of your old go to's

I do have the album but the big hit off of it escapes me

This one!

Was it Blowing Free?

Yes

Great memory

What a good album..

You were out there swinging with the Progressive movement.

Not Russ. He never owned a Yes album. Ever

Heh

wow Sting an October baby. Pays to be born that month

The only Yes song I ever liked was Hold Your Head Up. And then I found out it was Argent

That weird piano sound and the laugh is because Sting sat on the keyboard

Jerry, true

Fond memories of Sting writing that 5000 word diatribe to the Village Voice when they panned his album

Ah....Millie

always hated that hippie hammer to the brain

@patrick white take another look at yes

weare wonderin who's this band rite now

Mike, you are VERY connected.Advance of the Beatles Box

Affrig, Donny Hahaway

Gotta love connections

Sad story about Donnie

thanks, Jerry

Chubby Checker 10/3 Jackson Browne 10/9 Snoop Dogg 10/20 Weird Al 10/23 The Big Bopper 10/24 Bootsy Collins 10/26

yes, we had tickets for Yes at Ruth Ekert Hall last weekend , wife got sick

Guess it's just Steve Howe left in Yes

wow Donnie did go in a strange way. I wonder what happened.

She's jealous she didn't see em in the 70's at the spectrum

Crazy, right?

7" or 12"

Hey now

I once accidentally recorded myself running a vacuum cleaner and sold the tape as a Yes bootleg

@patrick white laughing. Although I wonder about the accidental recording

If you accidentally got caught in the vacuum it could have been sold as a Yoko Ono bootleg

Yoko was something else. Those vocals...🤢

I made a last minute decision to see Yes at the Keswick a couple weeks ago - At one point I thought perhaps Steve Howe wishes he had written music that was simpler to play.

They played Fragile - it was fun for nostalgia reasons

Love her Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band album

best decision

Fragile is a swell album

I thought the Yoko singing memes were kind of mean - funny - but mean

Mike - I had forgotten some of it - and was pleasantly surprised how much of it I knew

Our vacuum cleaner sounds fine, it's when our fridge starts sounding like ENB or Radiohead, we get a new one

What other show has comments like this?

South Side of the Sky is a great song

If you listen to Sangeet on Saturday then you learn there are various vocal styles and Yoko fits into a Japanese vocal tradition - Sangeet plays a lot of very cool vocals that sound odd to our ear

This Chat is the shizzzzzzzzzz

Love Sangeet!

New Yoko Ono exhibit just opened at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago: https://visit.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/yoko-ono-music-of-the-mind/

Especially when Dave hosts

vaccum cleaner now sounds like the lost signal of HFS

And sometimes we can't tell if we are hearing the radio, or our phones giving a weather or other type of alert

New album release here https://hoover.com/

*depending on the show we are listening to of course

@aiffrig HFS = ??

@vildachaya1 you rick-rolled me with that. I was half expecting a new/re-release from the DC band Hoover

whfs , annapolis md.

Well, there is a band by the name of Hooverphonic....

@aiffrig, that's what I was thinking/hoping. I miss that station

my early trips to sc

I remember that station....hot f'nnnn shizzzz

perfect song , jerry

Thank you, my friend!

WHFS Promo with the Persuasions

It was a great New Wave station in the 0's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_a8bP1ns2c

80's

Ship Bottom '78

Thanks Jerry - Have a great weekend

great show and chat. A lot to digest. Cheers! 👍

Yay, the original WHFS in Bethesda MD! :-)

Thanks, everybody!

Till next time

Yes, thanks, Jerry! You and everyone have a wonderful weekend!

All You Need is Love

my brother worked in goddard

Thanks Jerry!

Thx1

Thanks Bike R, and Roffle!