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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Apr 3, 2026 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

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!

4.3.26 New Releases-Princeton Jazz Festival preview-Ray Charles

New Jazz Releases, a preview of the Princeton University Jazz Festival, Ray Charles' sixties ABC singles

12:01 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:02 PM		Nat Birchall Amenhotep Path of Enlightenment 2026
12:14 PM		Bill Laswell & David Solid Gould Dub Questions Dub of the Passover Tzadik 2011
12:18 PM		Steve Wilson How Long? Enduring Sonance
12:24 PM		Willy Rodriguez Where I Saw You Last In the Unknown (I Will Find You) [with Leo Genovese & Ingrid Laubrock] 2026
12:28 PM		Dave Adewumi If I Need To Do This Again I’m Going To Throw A Fit The Flame Beneath the Silence 2026
12:38 PM		Bill Laswell & David Solid Gould Once We Were Dub Dub of the Passover Tzadik 2011
12:42 PM		Eric Alexander Serenade To A Cuckoo Timing Is Everything Cellar Live 2024
1:00 PM		Bill Frisell Isfahan (Live) In My Dreams 2026
1:06 PM		Gary Bartz NTU Troop Celestial Blues Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru Milestone 1971
1:36 PM		Gary Bartz NTU Troop You are my Starship (feat. Daniel Merriweather & Rita Satch) The Eternal Tenure of Sound: Damage Control OYO RECORDS 2025
1:37 PM		Michael Rodriguez Portrait of Jennie (feat. Chris Cheek, Gerald Clayton, Kiyoshi Kitagawa & Rodney Green) Reverence (feat. Chris Cheek, Gerald Clayton, Kiyoshi Kitagawa & Rodney Green) Criss Cross Jazz 2013
1:40 PM		Jerry Weldon Minority The Summit Cellar Live 2025
1:50 PM		Stephane Wrembel Libertango Django New Orleans II: Hors Série Water is life records 2025
1:52 PM		Bill Laswell & David Solid Gould Jah Dub Dub of the Passover Tzadik 2011
2:06 PM		Ray Charles Georgia on My Mind (Original Master Recording) Georgia on My Mind (Original Master Recording) - Single The Ray Charles Foundation 1960
2:06 PM		Ray Charles Ruby Dedicated to You
2:12 PM		Ray Charles One Mint Julep Genius + Soul = Jazz Verve Reissues 2021
2:14 PM		Ray Charles Hit the Road Jack The Genius Hits the Road
2:16 PM		Ray Charles Unchain My Heart Great Hits
2:17 PM		Ray Charles & Betty Carter Baby, It's Cold Outside Ray Charles & Betty Carter
2:30 PM		Ray Charles I Can't Stop Loving You (2024 Remaster) Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (2024 Remaster) Tangerine Records 1962
2:31 PM		Ray Charles You Don’t Know Me (2024 Remaster) Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music, Vols 1 & 2 (2024 Remaster) Tangerine Records 1962
2:33 PM		Ray Charles You Are My Sunshine Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 Tangerine Records 2009
2:36 PM		Ray Charles Your Cheatin' Heart Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 Tangerine Records 2009
2:37 PM		Ray Charles Take These Chains from My Heart Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 Tangerine Records 2009
2:40 PM		Ray Charles Born to Lose Modern Sounds In Country and Western Music, Vols. 1 & 2 Tangerine Records 2009
2:59 PM		Ray Charles Busted (2025 Remaster) Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul (2025 Remaster) Tangerine Records 1963
3:15 PM		Ray Charles Makin' Whoopee Live In Concert
3:16 PM		Ray Charles Crying Time (2024 Remaster) Crying Time (2024 Remaster) Tangerine Records 1966
3:17 PM		Ray Charles Let's Go Get Stoned (2024 Remaster) Crying Time (2024 Remaster) Tangerine Records 1966
3:18 PM		Ray Charles I Don't Need No Doctor A Man and His Soul

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon!

I love the brevity, man!

Hello to Jerry and Mike and everybody!

Hi Rick

Hi Rick, I wasn't expecting you today! Glad you're here, both of you

Jerry, I won't be here next week (Orthodox Easter).

Wonderfull to be me

I suspected that as a possibility. OK, enjoy the music today.

Mike, big question for you: When Will Constantine Jr. meets someone new, does he automatically say that he's Mike Constantine's cousin???

Jerry! It's my day off, glad to be joining you! Of course I'm getting a cheesesteak too lol

Great, TAndy! Very appropriate. Enjoy both!

Good afternoon Jerry! And a Good Friday to all.

Hi Roffle. Nice!

I think it's understood, Rick :)

Hey Roffle and TAndy!

Yay Nat Birchall 🎶

Hey Rick and Christine and all!

Hi Jerry & all....Happy Friday!

Hey Christine!

Hi Christine, Happy Friday to you! Nat kills it on this one... from his new album.

This day is kicking into gear now. My bike is on the charger. Great charging music. :)

May your gears and the wind be in sync!

Will refers to Mike and his "big cousin"

Much appreciated!

Nice!

You may know this tune, Rick. You too, Mike

Huh....no clue

I'm drawing a blank on this one so far, Jerry.

The "Four Questions", a key part of the seder, done to dub. Mike, I thought you might no that from your old work place, Rick I thought maybe from your studies.

Impressive!

Christine, a small preview of the Princeton U Jazz Festival at the top of the next hour

Bunch of music scientists around this joint.

There will be a quiz

You are in charge of the OG Department.

Right!....the bitter herbs

I thought the Bitter Herbs was Jerry’s rock band in high school.

lol

No, we were Jerry & the Gefilte Fish

lol indeed!

Gimme an F!

Oh my.

percussion "instruments" for Christine

Excellent, @Jerry. I'm looking forward to the Princeton Jazz Fest next Saturday.

Gimme an "H" (horseradish)

That first week in the tour van must have been rough.

The Ivy League Jazz Fest this past Saturday was a lot of fun.

We do ❤️ percussion

My horseradish is slow coming up this Spring

I'm not on the payroll, but Herr's Cheddar Horseradish chips are the bomb!

agreed

That campus is your happy place. I haven't heard anyone talk about the Ivy league festival

Love to know more

This is percussion on steroids!

Russ, here's your main man Dave Adwumi

Oh yeah!

Yes, indeedy! This is good!

I'm skankin'!

And there's that theme song again....! 🎶🐦

hahahaha! Someone please listen for the left/right whatever channel business when I announce the songs, please?

Thanks, Christine!

Thanks, Jerry. Adwumi was at the Jazz Gallery recently. We missed him!

That would have been substantial!

And fun!

Got you in my left channel.

Strong left channel, faint right.

What's really weird Rof is when I go out to my car to listen over the air, it's hard right.

I switched back and forth between the active speaker at home.

Thanks, guys

I have a studio set here at my desk.

I have tried many different fixes.

I wonder why online and OTA are opposite....weird

Those old AM radios man.

IDK... lol

Free jazz in a beautiful venue and free parking...Who could ask for more?!

That is the place to always be! :)

It's always most pleasurable to hear the vocal stylings of Andy Bey!

Hi Jerry,

Hi Jerry. I went to see Gary Bartz about a month ago here in Cincinnati at Caffe Vivace. I wish he played longer thant an hour. How are you. You know Gil Scott-Heron's birthday was Wednesday. Can you play something by him? Linda

Hello everyone

Hey Linda, how GREAT to hear from you! It breaks my heart to tell you I can't get any Gil Scott into today's show for you! Sorry! I should do a Linda Finch Gil Scott/Ohio Players show for you one of these days!

Rob, you crabby go lucky guy, welcome!

Alto saxophonist Bobby Watson leads his quartet with Jordan Williams on piano, Curtis Lundy on bass and Victor Jones on drums at JazzCultural in Manhattan tonight and tomorrow at 7 & 9 pm. Livestreams: https://www.smallslive.com/events/32244-bobby-watson-quartet/

Hi Rob, Linda, TAndy, Mike, Rick, Roffle & Russell 👋

crabby-go-lucky 🦀 lol @ Jerry

Hi there, Christine

Jerry, I am

Cellist Tomeka Reid concludes her residency at the Stone in Greenwich Village tonight and tomorrow with a different trio each night: http://www.thestonenyc.com/calendar.php

A great swinging tune by Gigi Gryce!

Joe Magnarelli/Jerry Weldon your kind of show, you will be busy that weekend!

For something completely different jazz didgeridoo player Harold E. Smith joins the Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble at the Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts tomorrow at 7:30 pm: https://clefclubofjazz.org/event/harold-smith-didgeridoo-with-arpeggio-jazz-cultural-voices

Very cool @Russell, thanks for the info!

Soprano saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom performs with Mark Helias on bass and Matt Wilson on drums at the Soapbox Gallery in Brooklyn on Sunday at 3 pm. Livestream: https://www.soapboxgallery.org/events/jane-ira-bloom-trio-w-mark-helias-amp-matt-wilson

Hi Jerry - this seemed a good song for met to swing by and say happy Passover and Easter to those friends here celebrating. And happy Spring to everyone.

The film The Magic City: Birmingham According to Sun Ra will be screened at Bok Auditorium in South Philly on Wednesdy, April 8 at 7 pm, presented by Lightbox Film Center and Ars Nova Workshop: https://www.lightboxfilmcenter.org/events/the-magic-city-birmingham-according-to-sun-ra

Thanks, Vilda. You picked a good time to pop in, although you missed the Four Questions!

Hi vildachaya! 👋 Happy Passover to you

Caroline Davis performs solo on saxophone and electronics and Matt Mitchell improvises solo on piano at Roulette in Brooklyn on Tuesday, April 7 at 8 pm. Livestream: https://roulette.org/event/caroline-davis-matt-mitchell/

Pianist Vicky Chow and the Mivos Quartet play Morton Feldman's mesmerizing 90- minute Piano and String Quartet at Roulette on Wednesday, April 8 at 8 pm. Livestream: https://roulette.org/event/vicky-chow-mivos-quartet-morton-feldman/

Thanks Christine - There is a hidden track of The Four Questions on The Vildachayas CD - You can hear it hear but gotta get past the 60 seconds of silence https://on.soundcloud.com/H5y0LpyZng6P8c6wGl

hmm my message got truncated - Hidden track 60 seconds after the end of the tune is a version of the four questions from Benny and the Vildachayas - long ago and far away...

Ray Charles at Valley Forge Music Center with the Rayettes - Wow - what a show

I always loved hearing Ray with the big band backing him!

Still a must!

Love your comment, Rick

The French string quartet, Quatuor Ébène, perform compositions by Beethoven, Ravel and Brahms at the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center in Philly on Thursday, April 9 at 7:30 pm:https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/quatuor-ebene-2026/

Ray Charles and Betty Carter, the perfect pair!

This is a fun hip hop R&B tune called Ray Charles by a group called Chiddy Bang - Fun Video Too

https://youtu.be/atEx6ZOX51s?si=aNx5n8ylKEC7UW1n

I heard Ray once tripped over a ladder and saw

Hell, I do that!

Hind sight? 20/20 :)

Off to the races! Have a great weekend and be safe. It's still raining idiots out there.

Watch out for them! Have a good time and holiday.

W I Believe In God

Hi Jerry. Great show as usual

It wont be long before its crying time Jon.

Thank you, John

I hope everyone who is looking finds their eggs this weekend. Thanks for another great one Jer !!!

Jerry, your show is consistently better than WBGO, WRTI, better than Hyski, better than the Geator! Kudos to you! I wish a Blessed Passover and Happy Easter to those that observe.

And don't keep them in one basket

Ray Charles and Spider webs.

Thanks for an excellent three hours, Jerry. Everybody get out there and hear some live music!

Thanks, everybody! Thanks, Rick

You don't like the Baroque?

Chag Pesach Sameach!

Right on, Mike

Ohj man, I lost track of the time again. Thanks for the show, Jerry! Loved hearing Hit the Road Jack again, cheers!

Classic! Thanks, TAndy!