"Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" by Pete Cosey, Michael Henderson, Adam Holzman, Wallace Roney, A. Sivamani, Vikku Vinayakram & Lenny White. Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon Fri May 22 with Jerry Gordon on WPRB Princeton 103.3 FM

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon. Today we are presenting a 3 hour appreciation of Miles Davis, 100 years after his birth on May 26, 1926

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody! Looking forward to mucho Miles!

Hey Rick, backatcha. Thank you!

Funny. I thought that was you playing Sonic Youts. As I searched for the log-in, I was wow, I did not know Miles played with Sonic youth.

Miles of Miles!

Island of Miles

Hey Elias and Russell!

ET!

Hey Rick!

Hi Russ, thanks!

Heeeeeere's Jerrrrrrryyyyyyyyy!

Hey Jimbooooo!

Hi Jimboooo, thanks. I hope you enjoy today's show.

These Bill Laswell "reconstructions" of Miles' music should not be underestimated. They are brilliant, enhances!

Rick, Cooper DeJean is being moved to starting Safety.

Also, Happy 112th Arrival Day to Sun Ra!

Oddly reminds me of 'The Man With The Horn'? The spintron says we are still istening to 'Panthalassa? Spock!

Jerry, wow! Maybe he'll be the next B Dawk!

Yes, this is a medley on Panthalassa, ET

Noone like Miles! What a great piece

Bike R, Right On!

I always forget how absolutely killer the drumming is on this. There's something about the way the high hat plays with the snare

Love your comment, Dan!

Part of Miles' brilliance was getting the best out of musicians. It's so amazing!

Bike R, beautifully stated.

It reminds me about The Heat Warps, a blog that documents every live recording from prime electric era Miles, roughly the same period covered by these Laswell mixes. Some of the recordings are dodgy, but it's really incredible all around. It makes you understand why folks became tape traders. https://theheatwarps.com/

Thank you for that information, Dan! Appreciated!

Cool Dan. Of course I can't go there now. For the uninitiated, what year did Miles Go Electric? I got Miles and Dylan walking past each other on 57th street. In !967. Miles was playing uptown, Dylan downtown.

It's a fuzzy line. For live stuff, it's probably in 1970 when he reconstituted the band after the so-called "lost quintet" split up. I'd say the studio side stuff starts with "In a Silent Way." It's basically the moment when he started incorporating the sounds from Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone, etc, into his musical vocabulary.

But the couple albums before In a Silent Way see him starting to push the line with electronics, having Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea start playing electric keyboards of various sorts, and moving from traditional jazz time to rock and funk beats

Two people out of this universe: Miles & Jerry. What a way to spend a Friday afternoon!

Thank you, Dennis. Glad to spend it with you!

Dan R, what a well thought out answer, incredible.

Dennis, are you wearing a Space Suit?

Neon signs buzzed above pawn shops and jazz clubs, and taxis honked like impatient brass sections.

Love that! We have a beatnik in the house!

Eddie Jefferson? WTF?

Eddie Jefferson rules!

No suit, just spaced out.....

You have prepared well for this journey, DD...

Indeed. We shall respect the Eddie Jefferson rules. 1) Have Perfect Pitch. 2) Have a back up catcher. But for now- J.T. Realmuto

backup is Rafael Marchan ? I didn't know we were doing Dub Jerry?

Of dourse!

course

Miles stands on the Genius platform with Beethoven

There's that theme song

Ha, Hi Mike! You only hit homers

Hey Jerry

Cuckoo song. Why do you love that so much? It is a great song. It is major key- i will answer here. We believe in the human spirit.

and especially the animal spirit

You Animal. Kiss Me!

well dont actually reserved for the dog

Hey Mike!

Hi Rick

Good afternoon, Jerry and everyone. I've heard some Yellow-billed Cuckoos singing in the past week

Sounds great Jerry. Hard to choose between listening to Sun Ra or Miles today. Good problem to have.

I've been watching videos on YouTube lately of a Tennesee Rancher who takes his favorite bull for rides in his truck. That's what the bull loves to do. They even go to McDonalds.

Hi Rob. I saw some fledge's today. Also picked a few turtles. Also- and this was unexpected- we saw 'Catfish Jumping'

Do the bull go to McDonalds to see his relatives?

Does

Hi Rob, love them Cuckoos! I wish you knew Will Constantine Jr, past WPRB jazz host who spends two weeks a year exclusively birding. You two would have plenty to talllk about.

Hi Brian, thank you very much. Yes, good dilemma to have. Glad you are enjoying

thought big arches luv to sell kangaroo

Mike - ouch!

IMHO this is one Miles' best ballads.

Nice, Rick!!

There is a name for it. You like eating meat. but to go out in the forest and hunt and kill it? I can sing in a minor key.

Aiffrig, Mike, Elias... The bull usually prefers chicken places.

archery is the hardest

I am actually an internet virus. i will infect your mind. I am stalwart. So What?

Now I want Popeye's chicken

The Bull won't fit into your hot rod

When I was in college, I needed a gut course that I could "ace". So I took Intro to Jazz. The homework was going to the listening lab weekly. That's where I heard the classic Miles LPs like "Cookin'" and "Steamin" regularly. It makes me want to go back to college. Well, maybe not.

Hi Elias, nice on the fledglings and the turtles. Is 'Catfish Jumping' a movie? band? something else?

I first heard Miles in college...it was Live Evil

You deserve it, Rick. Full Scholarship and research grant.

Jerry, it would be fun to meet Will Constantine Jr

Surrey you can't be serious about the fringe on top doctor? I am. And stop calling me Surrey.

Rob, I hope that happens, he is a devoted birder like yourself. I hope we can make it happen.

Brian Haaaaa

@Rob- quite amazing. i thought it was an inner tube caught beneath the dam. Perkiomen creek. Dam just above the confluence to the Schuylkill river. Catfish Jumping.

Surrey with the Fringe on Top. Jitney with the seaweed on top. Dinky with the [you Princetonites fill in the blank] on top.

Good memories of walking down the old rail trail to the Perkiomen Creek swimming hole while enjoying the long multi day weekend vacation at the Philly Folk Fest back in the 1990s to early 2000s. Trip was always lighter on the way back ... less beverage weight, just empties.

you stole my lighter. I always knew it was you.

Did it have a metal lighter cover that was five fingered from the I-95 Marketplace (RIP) at Rock n Roll Plus? That wasn't me then.

folk festival luved it add another half-hour on the commute rt-29

lets get a room. I will step in like a MMA fighter. But only with a word salad. What is your favorite dressing?

The OTHER Route 29. Penciltucky version

I'm gonna get a room at the Clown Motel. Bring ALL my weights and spread out.

We will meet in Emporium PA?

Either there or Nanty Glo or Prince Gallitzin.

Miles to Monk- Could you lay back?

Laaaiiiidddd back... with my Miles on my Monk and my Monk on my mind....

If I turn this up as loud as I want, the tenant will call the Jazz Police.

thursday nites 113 and 29 with them crazy kids from that colligeville higher place of learnin

speak to the molds

This music is just tooooooooooooo good!

Amen

still waiting to hear Michael Stern. of Course 'Milestones is essential Miles. Who are the players.

pretty sure this got me laid. Not

Laid specifically. But Layed out in my grave.

@Elias, quite amazing!

@Jerry, is Will related to Mike? Does his two weeks of birding involve Cape May?

As a warm-up to the Newport Jazz Festival, maybe an hour of music by some of the artists appearing there?

Rob, Mike is the most famous Constantine!

Mike's Cousin, Cape May, and other parts of NJ

Interesting question @ Rob. Is Will related to a robbery? I say it is.

The Green Dolphin

Ha! @ Rick

@rick. Mike is the most famous Constantine? Constantine the Great?

Rob, you hit the nail on the head!

They are both Kings!

A dream to some, a nightmare to others!

The rhythm section is really in the pocket on this tune.

killer!

So What

Charlie

Speaking of "killer", that's what vocal "So What" is!

This is a goodie!

Miles you living like a pig

So What

Freddie the Freeloader

is there a boardwalk in cape may , cause i ain't seen it

Absolutely, and off the boardwalk a bird sanctuary. A nice boardwalk.

Surprise terrific album, terrific trumpet player

long beach island has a bird park

Just back home in time to catch Jarrett in the home stretch with a bluesy bit of Miles? Too good. Simply too good.

Jerry, hearing 3 hours of Miles was a MOST pleasant surprise. The weather will not hamper us this weekend, because you got us off to such a great start with another great show!!! Everybody enjoy your long weekend!

..great show of musics. Thank you for your service.

OMG, I just noticed the Miles deep dive! Brutal.

seagull

Great show Jerry!

Till next time

Hi ROFL, thanks.Did you get in a good ride?

my brother who was born in '49 introduced me to miles in 1970 what do i know

thanks Jerry!!

Yes sir! Just back with the new scooter. :)

Thank you Rick, DBG, Brian, Mike, Aiffrig, everybody!

I was out for like 5 hours! lol

Love you man. Have a great Memorial DayWeekend

Thanks Roffle! And yes, happy Memorial Day Weekend to all

12:03 PM		Miles Davis In a Silent Way / Shhh / Peaceful / It's About That Time Panthalassa - The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 Reconstruction & Mix Translation By Bill Laswell Columbia 1997
12:16 PM		Miles Davis Black Satin / What If / Agharta Prelude Dub Panthalassa - The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 Reconstruction & Mix Translation By Bill Laswell Columbia 1997
12:33 PM		Pete Cosey, Michael Henderson, Adam Holzman, Wallace Roney, A. Sivamani, Vikku Vinayakram & Lenny White Miles Runs the Voodoo Down Miles from India V/A Four Quarters Records 2008
12:41 PM		Eddie Jefferson Bitches Brew Things Are Getting Better
12:54 PM		Animation Bitches Brew (DJ Logic and Grant Phabao Remix) Agemo RareNoiseRecords 2011
12:55 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
1:42 PM		Miles Davis All Stars Solar (Remastered 2025) Walkin' (Remastered 2025) Craft Recordings 2025
2:01 PM		Miles Davis It Never Enterd My Mind Workin'
2:04 PM		Miles Davis Quintet Surrey With the Fringe On Top Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet Original Jazz Classics 1961
2:05 PM		Miles Davis Quintet If I Were a Bell Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet (Remastered) Prestige 1958
2:06 PM		Miles Davis 'Round Midnight 'Round About Midnight (Legacy Edition) Columbia/Legacy 1957
2:06 PM		Miles Davis Milestones Milestones Columbia/Legacy 1958
2:08 PM		Cannonball Adderley Autumn Leaves Somethin' Else SINETONE AMR 1958
2:09 PM		Miles Davis On Green Dolphin Street (feat. John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley & Bill Evans) Birth of the Blue SMCMG 2024
2:23 PM		Miles Davis Orbits Miles Smiles Columbia/Legacy 1967
2:26 PM		Miles Davis Nefertiti Nefertiti Columbia/Legacy 1968
2:36 PM		Frank Minion So What (feat. Bill Evans, Jimmy Cobb & Paul Chambers) The Soft Land of Make Believe Bethlehem
2:37 PM		Julie Driscoll & Brian Auger & The Trinity All Blues Streetnoise
2:44 PM		Keith Jarrett Trio Solar Keith Jarrett Trio: Tribute ECM Records 1990
2:53 PM		Russell Gunn New New Blues Russell Gunn Plays Miles HighNote Records, Inc. 2007
3:00 PM		Miles Davis Guinnevere The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions Columbia/Legacy 1970

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