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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Nov 21, 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!

11.21.25 jazz new releases/the funk

Deep and fantastic jazz new releases. a two hour story of very deep jazz is a compilation of all new releases. This is followed by funk from 1972-1976

12:01 PM		Leo Genovese Brooklyn De Noche Solo Brooklyn
12:12 PM		Russ Lossing (with Mark Helias & Eric McPherson)Apostrophe Proximity Alert (with Mark Helias & Eric McPherson) 2025
12:23 PM		Dhafer Youssef Generalife Gardens Shiraz ACT Music 2025
12:24 PM		Aaron Parks Dense Phantasy By All Means Blue Note Records 2025
12:28 PM		Bill Bickford, Joe Corsello, Rick Petrone & Steve Marcus Serenade to a Cuckoo Steve Marcus Project Mighty Quinn Productions 2007
12:46 PM		Tom Skinner & Meshell Ndegeocello The Maxim Kaleidoscopic Visions International Anthem 2025
12:59 PM		Charles Lloyd The Ghost of Lady Day Figure In Blue Blue Note Records 2025
1:05 PM		Alfa Mist Dersen Cafe Roulette Sekito 2025
1:13 PM		Juan Chiavassa Moon Germs (feat. Mike Stern, John Patitucci, Leo Genovese & George Garzone) Fourth Generation Whirlwind Recordings 2025
1:19 PM		Gary Bartz NTU Troop You are my Starship (feat. Daniel Merriweather & Rita Satch) The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control OYO RECORDS 2025
1:24 PM		Kassa Overall FREEDOM JAZZ DANCE CREAM Warp Records 2025
1:30 PM		Andy LaVerne Listen Hear Crystal Night SteepleChase 2025
1:35 PM		Massimo Biolcati Soul Eyes (feat. Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks & Kendrick Scott) Kintsugi (feat. Lionel Loueke, Aaron Parks & Kendrick Scott) Sounderscore Inc. 2025
1:39 PM		Rich Perry Peace Dream 2025
2:05 PM		The Counts Why Not Start All Over Again (2023 Remastered) What's Up Front That-Counts (2023 Remastered) Org Music 2023
2:10 PM		Cymande Bra Cymande Partisan Records / Liberator Music 1971
2:11 PM		Donny Hathaway The Ghetto (Live) Live Rhino Atlantic 1972
2:25 PM		Fred Wesley and the J.B.'s Doing It To Death (Single Edit) The Singles, Vol. 8: 1972-1973 Polydor 2009
2:30 PM		Parliament Up For The Down Stroke Up For The Down Stroke (Expanded Edition) Island Def Jam 1974
2:35 PM		Etta James Leave Your Hat On Etta Is Betta Than Evvah! Geffen 1976
2:43 PM		The Meters People Say Rejuvenation Rhino/Warner Records 1974
2:47 PM		Norman Connors Mother of the Future (Buddha Remastered 2001) Slew Foot Legacy Recordings 1975
2:59 PM		The Wild Magnolias Smoke My Peace Pipe (Smoke It Right) The Wild Magnolias Universal Music Division Decca Records France 2024

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everyone, to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hi Rick, Happy Friday. Thanks for being here.

Jerry, your show keeps me off the streets!

This guy is an Argentinian peianist and very good, atmospheric!

Keeps you at the kitchen table where the familly can keep an eye on you

Greetings and Good Day to Jerry and all his listeners. Serenade to a Cuckoo near the top of my thankful things for Thanksgiving list🦃

pianist

Just clicked in. Happy to have you in my digiteria. I hope you have a great show.

Hey Patrick and Richard!

Very deep jazz indeed.

Hi!

Hey Kerroffle!

Thank you, Patrick! You and Rick and Falaffel are inspirations to me. Nice, smart, musical, good people.

... all of whome have walked the streets of Philadelphia for decades

Hi rick!

Hey Jerry, someone started this fire, and you've got the matches... :)

Jerry- we may soon have another Jazz program in prime time. I worked with the station manager and host Turshu to see if she was amenable to a move from 1:00AM and she said yes. I had contacted the station manager and he has spoken with Turshu. So, maybe in the next round of program assignments we will get her program. My initial experience with her was terrific. I had asked for some Keith Jarrett and she did it on the fly. The rest of her program was terrific. She will gain a wider audience.

And the station will strengthen its Jazz profile.

Legend has it that Kerrofflestomp's name was bestowed on him by Bo Diddley. Or maybe it was Bohannon.

That's great, Richard!

50 years ago a bevy of local entertainment options.Chicago. Roxy Music.Harry Chapin.Four Aces.Manhattans.John Fahey.Vicki Carr. John Davidson.Captain and Tennille.Richard Davis.Gil Scot Heron and his Midnight Band.

They had to get together to come up with this name... :)

Love it!

Captain and Tennille? LOL Marquee headliners if there ever were such.

I believe Roxy had their big hit Love is the Drug 50 years ago

Patrick, one of the Four Aces bought my childhood home in Chester when we made the Exodus out of there.

Hi Mike

Hey Mike!

Hey Jerry

Mike, we will be playing your funk faves today in Jerry's Room

Hi Rick

I always thought that Toni Tennille was easy on the eyes.

I always get the Four Aces,the Four Freshmen and the Gang of Four mixed up.

Looking forward to funking myself

Hahaha

Four Aces were from Chester

Gang of Four was one of the best shows I've seen....at the old City Gardens

I always thought the Captain and Tennille must have had compromising pictures of record execs with farm animals to get that garbage played on air

No love for Muskrat Love?

I would play anything Tennille told me to play, I'm with Rick

When’s its numerical groups its The Nairobi Trio…….. and everyone else

Mike just made my case

Yes, things made much more sense when coming from the mouth of Tennille.

I actually attended the Gil Scott Heron show and asked him what channel was televising the Revolution.

Patrick, you are a hoot!!! No better place to get free comedy than right here!

When they divorced did people get a refund for their Love Will Keep Us Together records?

It was LIVE, or will be live when and if it happens

And what did he say. Shit, when Whitey lands on Mars, we are due for a remix.

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

He said get out of my face or soon there will be an Irish Whitey On The Moon!!

Good one, Falaffel

lol

Irishman On the Moon.

Love it!

Bringing back Blarney stones no doubt.

They just found a big one on Mars, a big rock that didn't belong.

If I was a rock that would be me

From the beginning o'time.

Yeah, Mike, no one to bother you..

Lets send Musk to go look at it up close.

He might start Muskylvania

Ha!

That's okay. I'll even pack him a lunch.

Is Muskylvania near Pottsylvania?

World Cafe Live just lost their liquor license. Now if XPN can lose their broadcast license we will have a Daily Double..

Patrick, I'm on board with that.

Henny White!

There’s that theme song! 🎶 🕊️

Thank you Russ

Patrick, that would be great!

New Dhafer Youssef!

They came close to losing their license in the mid 1970s due to some incessant f bombing by on air narcotized hippies

Lost their liquor license? You can't run that station without demographically correct box wine.

I attended the FCC hearing!

They say it’s BYOB now but the liquor has to be locally sourced and grapes grown on David Dyes farm

Hi Dave!

haha, Patrick! I ain't gonna work on David's farm no more!

That was the Counter-Revolutioin that was never televised or even mentioned.

Counter-Revolution

RIP to one of my favorite Phillies opponents Randy Jones. He and Jim Kaat hooked up in a 10pm west coast duel that ended before The Johnny Carson show began

Yeah, if you went to the bathroom, you missed 3 innings.

Great pitcher! I used to have Jim Kaat's Washington Senators baseball card.

Word to my fellow Cuckkooians. Stay out of Center City this weekend. Those Marathon street blockages are a nightmare. I’d recommend SEPTA but that would be cruel and unusual punishment

As a rule I try to stay out of Philly.

Mars is preferable these days

I can walk or ride my scooter into downtown. Easy pezy.

But not today!

Maybe not till Spring. lol

Roffle still drives up and down South St. eating falaffel and Cheesesteaks as he has been doing since the late seventies. Shopped at Zipperhead.

My ex girlfriend's son occasionally asks me to take him to one of the venues around Callowhill....that's not too bad

It’s rough here in NE Philly Jerry. I saw 2 security guys armed with machine guns guarding the mosque near Castor Ave. I asked what’s going on? They said credible threats Sir!Later further on Castor they were guarding the synagogue. They said Credible threats!! Next day I saw them guarding the Catholic Church. I said Credible Threats?? They said no they’re just moving out the bingo Receipts

There is a great Japanese Restaurant and pizza place (fancy) on Callowhill up near the Free Library.

Ha!

Mmmmmmm....Japanese

Patrick, you're hitting on all cylinders today! They're landing!

Oh yeah, the Pope said some stuff that the MAGA types took umbrage with.

I'm diggin' the muted trumpet.

The Pope better watch his back

yeah, Rick, nice!

How great is this cover by Gary Bartz of the Norman Connors/Phyllis Hyman track?

Real nice vibe goin' on.

Sounds very 70s to me....that's a good thing

The song was from the 70s, a classic. Bartz's great years were the 60s and 70s. Voila!

Coleman Hawkins birthday today.

Happy Birthday, Bean!

I don’t mind sending money to WPRB but they never send the promised Jerry Gordon bobble head doll as a thank you gift.

Music for Two Pianos: The Music of Henry Threadgill by Rahul Carlberg and Maya Keren At Roulette in Brooklyn tonight: https://roulette.org/event/music-for-two-pianos-threadgill-carlberg-keren/

Sounds pretty dang good!

Beautiful guitar interpretation of this beautiful tune.

Right on, Rick. Lionel Loueke

MIGUEL ZENÓN BIG BAND At the Jazz Gallery in Manhattan tonight and tomorrow: https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/miguel-zenon-nov-21-22-2025 Sold out tonight but livestreams are available tomorrow.

Tim Berne & Tyler Bullock At the Black Squirrel Club tomorrow: https://www.ticketleap.events/tickets/blacksquirrelclub/the-jazz-gallery-mentoring-series-presents-tim-berne-tyler-bullock

An expanded group of singers with the Royal Bopsters did a moving version of Horace Silver’s Peace at Sheila Jordan’s celebration of life this past Tuesday at St Peter’s Church in Manhattan.

The Black Squirrel Club is walking distance, Manhattan bit more.. lol

I suggest donation: No better radio than done by Jerry. Even the subs. Support requires $$$. This show is essential. Brain food. Donate.

Absolutely Essential

Ooops! Tim Berne show is Sunday, not tomorrow. Sorry!

Still just as far... :)

I like the garage venue.

Love Joe Farrell. Esp. entire albums Moon Germs and Penny Arcade.

As great as the store was I still think Jerry should have used the name I proposed. Tex and Edna’s Organ Emporium

Stew, thanks for the endorsement!Clearly you know what you're doing as displayed by your love of Joe Farrell. It doesn't get any better than Joe Farrell. Thank you!

Patrick, we could make a lot of dough arranging kidney sales. Better than cutouts for $1.99

I can’t think of any other record stores ever in Old City?

Red Dot

The kidneys would also technically be cutouts.

CYMANDE!

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

KERROFFLE WINS!!!!!!!!

This Cymande lp never leaves my phone. Total party good time.

HEY BRIAN! You are impressive

Phyllis Chapell & Ken Ulansey Are among the many performers at Andrea Clearfield’s Szslon on Sunday: https://www.zalonarts.org/programs/november-23rd-2025 In person or on Zoom

Mike, are you funkin' along?

Sho nuff!

I could fry eggs on the sub

Ellyne are you listening????

Mike, sorry to check up on you, I wanted to make sure you didn't go on that Mars trip.

Stew, thanks, we need more listeners!

In my mind I'm already there

Jerry, I meant to write way back when...when you sub'd for #6 on Oct 22 this year... that was the absolute bomb. LOVED IT ALL.

That was fun, thank you!!!! I liked that show alot!

I like #6 too, a great person

#6 has a helluva show

Nice!

Please he’s not a number!! He’s. A human being!!

JB!

Who is #1?

James Brown, says Rick Hallahan

He's not wrong

The John Coltrane of R&B and Funk

Amen, brother!

Is there any better funk than James Brown? I don't think so.

No Stew, the pure and natural funk!

Amen

PRISM Quartet, Diane Monroe, Ursula Rucker, and Tyshawn Sorey: Unlocking Your Inner Composer at The Free Library of Philadelphia tomorrow and Monday: https://www.prismquartet.com/concerts/library-concerts/

wowowowow. What's the cost of that, Russ?

Free, just show up!

Incredible!

My comedy appearances also free. But you have to pay to get out

This is Jerry's favorite Randy Newman composition.

Haaaa, Patrick! Makes sense!

And Russ is correct! This and Mama Told Me Not To Come!

Hi friends of Jerry!!! - Just stopping by to say hello - Working to the funk over here in Cheltenham - Thanks!

Hey you Funky Man!

I think the best Randy cover is Dusty Springfield I Don’t Want to Hear It Anymore.

Patrick knows is Pop Music. Russ knows his Randy Newman

I happened to see new artist Raye on the Jennifer Hudson show this morning (don't ask) - but it was a pretty amazing performance. Jazzy/raphiphoppy/poppy

Will check her out if she gets a thumbs up from the wildman. You love your Jennifer Hudson!

A happy Thanksgiving to Jerry and all his listeners. See you next Friday

To you also Patrick

Thank you, Patrick, nice!

Same to everybody!

Back at ya, Patrick.

Wow, those hours blasted right on by. Thanks Jerry! Happy Thanksgiving falaffle to all.

Haha, thanks Kerroffle, have a great one, thanks for being here

Mary Halvorson tonight and tomorrow at Close Up in Manhattan tonight and tomorrow: https://www.viewcy.com/event/mary_halvorson__dave

Jerry, I enjoyed the ethereal approach to the good music on Serenade today! It set my mood in a proper direction. And the funk was the best! Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

Have a great Thanksgiving Rick to you and your Tribe!!!

Have a smokin' weekend everyone

Ha, Yesss!

Awesome show today Jer!! Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hi Sheila, thank you. Hope you're well. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Have a great weekend everyone!!

Sheila the K, the greatest!

Till next time

Happy Thanksgiving, Mike!

Youu too Jerry

Singularly Awesome! Donate and spread the word.

Happy Thanksgiving, Funky Stew!