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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Mar 27, 2026 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!

3.27.26 New jazz-Carol Kaye

2 hours of great new jazz releases followed by an hour on the life of "Wrecking Crew" bassist Carol Kaye

12:02 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:04 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
12:12 PM		Soft Machine The Longest Night Thirteen 2026
12:23 PM		Wendy Eisenberg & Anthony Pirog Waiting for the Raptor Don't Forget Your Guitar AGS Recordings 2026
12:28 PM		Wolfgang Muthspiel & Gilad Hekselman Liebeslied Don't Forget Your Guitar AGS Recordings 2026
12:41 PM		Nubiyan Twist Azimuth (feat. eniola) Chasing Shadows Strut 2026
12:45 PM		Nubiyan Twist & Manifest How Far (feat. eniola) Chasing Shadows Strut 2026
12:49 PM		Kenny Barron Sunshower (feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant) Songbook Artwork Records 2025
12:56 PM		Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra Alkebulan Alkebulan
1:18 PM		New York Hardbop Quintet Everything I Have Is Yours Whisper Away TCB - The Montreux Jazz Label™ 1998
1:26 PM		Joe Magnarelli When I Fall In Love Decidedly So Cellar Live 2026
1:36 PM		Alexander Claffy She (Live) Alive in Philadelphia, Vol 1 (Live) 2026
1:44 PM		Nat Birchall Sphesihle Path of Enlightenment 2026
1:52 PM		Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band They Speak No Evil In The Brass Palace 2026
2:10 PM		Arvind Ramdas Autumn In New York Here We Go 2026
2:11 PM		Sam Cooke Summertime (Part 1) Portrait of a Legend: 1951–1964 ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2003
2:12 PM		Ritchie Valens La Bamba Best of Ritchie Valens Astorg Records 1985
2:13 PM		The Crystals Then He Kissed Me Da Doo Ron Ron - The Very Best of the Crystals Legacy Recordings 2011
2:15 PM		The Righteous Brothers You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' The Very Best of the Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody Verve 1965
2:17 PM		The Beach Boys California Girls (Mono) Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!) (Mono & Stereo) [2001 Remaster] Capitol Records 1965
2:21 PM		The T-Bones No Matter What Shape The Wrecking Crew: We Got Good At It
2:26 PM		The Beach Boys Good Vibrations Smiley Smile Capitol Records 1967
2:37 PM		The Beach Boys Wouldn't It Be Nice (Mono) Pet Sounds (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) [2016 Remaster] CAPITOL CATALOG MKT (C92) 1966
2:41 PM		Ike & Tina Turner River Deep - Mountain High The Wrecking Crew
2:43 PM		The Marketts Batman Theme The Marketts: Greatest Hits Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 2019
2:45 PM		The Monkees I'm a Believer (Single Version) The A's, The B's & The Monkees 1967
2:48 PM		Nancy Sinatra These Boots Are Made for Walkin' The Wrecking Crew
2:50 PM		Ray Charles I Don't Need No Doctor Singular Genius
2:52 PM		Sonny & Cher The Beat Goes On The Wrecking Crew
2:54 PM		Glen Campbell Wichita Lineman Gentle On My Mind: The Best Of UMC (Universal Music Catalogue) 2013
2:59 PM		Barbra Streisand The Way We Were (Soundtrack Version) The Way We Were (Original Soundtrack Recording) Columbia 1974

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoko with Jerry Gordon!

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Greetings to Gordski,Rick and all Cuckoo acolytes

Hey Patrick!

Hi Rick, Happy Friday. I hope you had a great week! And hello Patrick!

Baseball season is here. Perhaps a 162 and 0 Phillies season

There's that theme song again!! 🎶🐦

Right off the bat. ⚾️ Play ball!

Patrick, we're in 1st place! Hey Christine!

Yesterday's game was so enjoyable, wasn't it? Funny, I believe everybody here currently watched at least some part of the game. And it was easy to watch!

I watched it all, Jerry. Enjoyable, yes!

Hi Jerry, Rick & Patrick 👋

Amazing pitching from our starter.

And centerfield looked pretty good!

Cristopher looked like Sandy Koufax! New blood in centerfield. That's a real good thing.

A surfeit of local entertainment options 50 years ago. Kingfish, Cold Blood and Dudek. Marcel Marceau,Glen Campbell,Taj Mahal,Fifth Dimension,Sun Ra at New Foxhole,Robin Trower,Al Raymond and his Big Band .

Greetings to Christine🇮🇪

Hi Patrick! ☘️

Cold Blood with Lydia Pense! I wish I would've caught that act!

Great selections, Patrick

Happy birthday to Sarah Vaughan who would have been 102 today.

Rick at Scottish Rite Cathedral 150 north broad street. Promoter tried hard at this venue but would be tragically razed by 1980

Patrick, what was it replaced with?

Such a shame, Patrick.

Hi Russ!

I think it is also Ben Webster's birthday today also

This is pretty dang good!

This really MOVES

Jerry They indeed paved paradise and put up a parking lot. I believe there was a Town Hall facility near there also.

Is that where the famous Town Hall was?

...paved paradise, put up parking lot, and added a Wawa and a Rita's Water Ice. 😐

Bob Dylan played Town Hall and our man TOWE used to air Philadelphia Orchestra concerts from that facility. INDEED!!

Christine, we have some jump and move tracks coming up for you in 15 minutes

I remember in my teenage years posters all over the city one Saturday for Nazz at Town Hall but never knew where the venue was nor did I make it there

Upper Darby-born saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins premieres Recitations with AACM pianist Amina Claudine Myers and guitarist Marvin Sewell tonight at SFJazz in San Francisco at 10:30 pm Eastern time. Livestream: https://www.sfjazz.org/athome/fridays-live/recitations-immanuel-wilkins-ft-amina-claudine-myers-pedro-martins/ with a repeat at 2 pm tomorrow.

Soft Machine? New release or found in the archives?

JC, brand spanking new

Great info, thanks @Russell!

Beautiful guitar artistry!

Two good ones, Rick, I agree

There might have been a better local rock band than the NAZZ but I haven’t heard them

Pianist Kenny Barron leads his trio with fellow Philadelphian Johnathan Blake on drums and Kiyoshi Kitagawa on bass at Smoke in NYC this weekend. Livestreams tonight at 6 & 8 pm: https://livestreams.smokejazz.com/shows/11007/?date=2026-03-27&mc_cid=04b86768eb&mc_eid=b115e2cced

Shout out to Russ truly our Minister of Information

Hail Russell! 🎓 📝 📢 💡

I second that motion!

This is real good (and not only because I hear some bari sax happening in that ensemble work)!

My first listen of the new Nubian Twist album. Good stuff!

As opposed to Patrick’s concert info. Hey Jerry I heard some guys playing somewhere around. Here next week at some time

Around Princeton NJ? I am set to announce it.

Free livestreams this weekend at 7 & 9 pm from Smalls in Greenwich Village with former Miles Davis saxophonist George Coleman: https://www.smallslive.com/events/32192-george-coleman-quintet/

Was hoping these new curators would be putting on events at Coltrane House but they are probably a new brand of con artists.

Interesting PW

Haven’t heard much from CLEF CLUB either

No AI will replicate those vocals. Such grace. Such skill.

Cecile Mclorin Salvant j ust slays it on this song, you are so right.

rick, the track after this will feature Veronica Swift in a surprising musical environment.

Anxiously awaiting my free and near free concerts outdoors lineups. Unfortunately my Upper Merion parks concerts have been infested by XPN olios. Like Frank Costanza I. WILL NOT TOLERATE INFESTATION !!

Veronica Swift rules! Because I love her singing, maybe that makes me a Swiftie??????????????

Definitely! I hope we hear a baritone in hear somewhere

Guitarist Bill Frisell celebrates his recent 75th birthday at Jazz at Lincoln Center tonight at 7 & 9 pm with Jenny Scheinman (violin), Eyvind Kang (viola), Hank Roberts (cello), Tony Scherr (bass), and Rudy Royston (drums) and tomorrow at 4:30 & 7 with vocalist Petra Haden, drummer Tim Angulo and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire: https://jazz.org/concert/bill-frisell-75th-birthday-celebration-with-special-guests/

Patrick, when and what is the next Upper Merion show and artist?

I believe they start in May and run til September. When I saw the words XPN event I kind of tuned the whole ting out . Used to be 5 or 10 dollars . Now it’s 45 $ plus fees, and tribute money to David Dye

This big band is killing it! Very nice!

Are you serious?

Not what the "community" was asking for

Alan Broadbent performs with bassist Harvie S and drummer Billy Mintz at the Deer Head Inn tomorrow at 7 pm at the Delaware Water Gap in the Poconos: https://deerheadinn.com/march-2026-music-schedule/

We ❤️ free concerts at Princeton

This Big Band is great but I still miss Al Raymond.

Recommended outdoor summer shows . The City Rhythm Orchestra ,York Street Hustle., Pat Guadnago

Christine additionally Princeton has free outdoor shows in Palmer Square and Princeton Shopping Center.

The Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddens play at McCarter Theater at Princeton tomorrow at 7:30 pm: https://www.mccarter.org/silkroadensemble

RIP to the late great Valerie Perrine. True beauty and great actress.

Ivy League Jazz Festival, as announced: https://www.princeton.edu/events/2026/ivy-league-jazz-festival

Excellent info! Bring on the Ivy League Jazz! 🧡🖤

Christine, one of your favorite venues!

Thank you @Jerry, @ Patrick and @Russell for the live music info

Richardson Auditorium in Princeton is a special place. The upcoming Princeton Jazz Festival next month will be in Richardson. Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall where tomorrow's concert will be is also very nice.

Did anyone see Alarm Will Sound in Princeton last Tuesday 3/17? That concert was at Richardson Auditorium and was also 🆓️.

Christine, you have been to plenty of shows in your day at Princeton, a special homey place for you!

Christine do you know Fine Hall was named after virtuoso violinist and former Philadelphia born stooge Larry Fine.

@Patrick, lol

I'm pretty sure that's not the case. But I do know that Larry Fine graduated from Central High School. 🎓

Vocalist Judy Niemack leads her trio with Aaron Goldberg on piano and Alexander Claffy on bass on Sunday at Mezzrow in NYC at 6 & 7:30 pm. Free livestream: https://www.smallslive.com/events/32028-judy-niemack-trio/

A surfiet of Cuckoo acolytes. Hi gang.

I'm just glad they didn't tear down the MET, although I have never actually been inside.

I just played one of my favorites, Clovis Nicholas!

That soft machine track was pretty cool. I think I had 'third' on vinyl, but never really listened to it for some reason.

Third was the biggie!

You knew which one to own

Pianist Geoffrey Keezer and vocalist Gillian Margot perform in a sold-out concert in Hopewell, NJ on Sunday: https://www.jazznightsprinceton.com/. There is a waitlist.

I am down with all things Clovis.

Ha!

Anyway I just checked in since you said the magic date, April 15 I think I have been sitting here a week fumbling with spreadsheets on the laptop.

I hate it. It's paralyzing

downloaded the banking info to a spreadshhet, but none of the formulas would work. Took two hours to figure out it was because they loaded as 'text' rather than numbers. My AI master told me how to fix it though. So theres that.

I've been having some issues with my computer, try to fix it with Open AI, and it has made lots of dangerous mistakes

Its very funny. I had a random carpentry problem I was working on, I wanted some raised boxes for the garden, and use a dovetail joint. I got a bout a dozen non sense answers from the AI (grok) before I gave up.

Hallucinations, they call them

Excellent vocal - swinging big band - great tune. I am diggin' it!!!

Next time you're on- askit for a random number between 1 and 10. It will say 7. Because- it only sees what people on reddit think a random number should be. lol.

Rick, Kurt Elling is a Schwinger. And you like this band, the WDR Big Band

Jerry, the WDR Big Band is world class!

There is a quality jazz vocalists have that is so unique to the genre. For some reason this is making me think of Eddie Jefferson.

Vocalese!

Rick, WDR, they ARE exceptional!

Yes, indeedy!

Love it!

Wasn’t aware how old McCarter Theatre is. 86 years ago Paul Robeson was playing to sellout audiences performing The Emperor Jones. A hero of John Weingart

I think I saw Amal and the Night Visitors performed there. Many years ago.

Also started Uta Hagen and Jose Ferer . Stellar cast

Robeson was an absolutely remarkable individual.

Baba Ram Raisin

all the great bassist start out as guitarists. No surprise there at all. I won't be so tedious as to list them.

I'm currently reading the authorized biography of the Bangles. In the book, the Bangles bass player, Micki Steele, relates how she approached Carol Kaye for advice and pointers on how to improve her craft. She said that Carol Kaye provided excellent direction that was most helpful to Micki.

Hi Brian D< thanks for clarifying the pronounciation

Huh? That was just a joke... forget if it was Mad Magazine or Natl Lampoon something like that

I liked it!

For some reason she hated her portrayal on Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

There's been mishigoss

LOTS of arguing whether she provided the bass to a bunch of motown hits including "I Was Made to Love Her"

Jerry's DiscWasher is getting a workout today.

Haha, I had to get a turbo one, John

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLnHE-q3wKU

After I speak the next time, could someone tell me if I am coming through both speakers or not? I would appreciate it

I usually hit the MUTE button when you’re speaking.

Patrick, you are a hoot!

Both speakers

Shout and farewell to the great Mike McGrath of You Bet your Garden. Retiring from Lehigh Valley NPR radio. Was unceremoniously dumped by the greenheads at WHYY $$ but moved to the WDIY and established a foothold . Interesting unique local programming

Oy. This is weird. On the radio, you're mostly right but a little left. Streaming online you're left only.

Both speakers online for me

Mike McGrath. One of the all time greats. Very distinctive voice.

This IS a giant Oy. I will have to find out why. Thanks Russ and John

I would like to be helpful hear, but am partially def on the right side. The brain does give compensation though.

Everyone have a great weekend.

My mother was Sooo sorry she bought us that record.

Mike McGrath, fabulous person, wrote for the Drummer initially, I believe?

#BAM! BANG. SOCK. I can see that cartoon like it was yesterday

Ha!

McGrath was Entertainment Editor of Philadelphia’s weekly alternative newspaper The Drummer https://wtop.com/author/mike-mcgrath/

Hey Jerry- Did you know Mandolin Steve? May have edited the Ritz film bill?

I don't think so

Hello everyone

she played upright too? Wowz

Hi Rob, great to see you as always

*hides in internet* 😇

Hi Jerry!

We are celebrating the 91st birthday, Carol Kaye, studio bassist estraordinaire

Hey Rob- I saw a Bald Eagle maybe Wed AM. What a thing to see. Very large bird.

Lester, awesome! They are large, and magnificent. I hope you see more!

Russ, I have you to thank for that Ray Charles track!

Jerry, I have you to thank for this great music!

Thanks, Russ

Second that! Classic stuff.

This show is just an excuse to play some great music. Say it aint so.

Absolutely

Jerry, your show not only kept me off the streets on this Friday afternoon, but also was most enjoyable to hear! And the hour of Carol Kaye was a very pleasant surprise! You and your family have a Blessed Passover. Everybody enjoy your weekend! go Phils!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-L_T6NlKtFs

Thank you so much, Rick. Wonderful!

Another top-notch show in thr books. Thanks, Jerry and Happy Friday to everyone! ⚾️

See everybody tomorrow: https://www.nokings.org/

I thought this was there will always be a morning after.

Thanks so much, Christine!

Thank you everybody, can't get to all the names, but I thank you!

wait, what?