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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Sep 4, 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!

9.4.26 Cassandra Wilson/Imagined Woodstock Day 3

A celebration of the life of the late Cassandra Wilson and we will also listen to new modern jazz releases by current female jazz vocalists. Then on hour in Jerry's Room and the alternate Woodstock Day 3, an imagined Woodstock comprised of artists who did get to perform at the original Woodstock.

12:05 PM		Steinski I Like It Like That What Does It All Mean? - 1983-2006 Retrospective
12:05 PM		Nina Simone Baltimore (Murillo Mongelo Remix)
12:05 PM		Jane Bunnett Serenade To A Cuckoo The Water Is Wide Linus Entertainment 1993
12:39 PM		Erykah Badu & The Alchemist Echoes Before The World Blows
12:40 PM		Somi Throw Something What Does It Take to Bloom? Salon Africana, Inc. 2026
12:42 PM		Cassandra Wilson Come On In My Kitchen Blue Light 'Til Dawn Blue Note Records 1993
12:42 PM		Cassandra Wilson You Don't Know What Love Is Blue Light 'Til Dawn Blue Note Records 1993
12:56 PM		Cassandra Wilson I Can't Stand the Rain Blue Light 'Til Dawn Blue Note Records 1993
12:56 PM		Cassandra Wilson Harvest Moon New Moon Daughter Blue Note Records 1994
1:01 PM		Cassandra Wilson Last Train to Clarksville New Moon Daughter Blue Note Records 1994
1:05 PM		Cassandra Wilson Death Letter New Moon Daughter Blue Note Records 1994
1:11 PM		Cassandra Wilson Run the VooDoo Down Traveling Miles Blue Note (BLU) 1999
1:38 PM		Matt Wilson's Good Trouble Anyone Who Had A Heart Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces
1:39 PM		Faye Carol Driving Wheel (feat. Gerald Albright) Faye Sings the Blues 2026
1:40 PM		Lucy Yeghiazaryan Witchcraft Hey Love! La Reserve Records 2026
1:42 PM		Gretchen Parlato Already Gone (feat. Robert Glasper) The Wise Ones Edition Records 2026
1:43 PM		Ale Nuñez I'm Just a Lucky So and So (feat. Neil Swainson) Blue Room (feat. Neil Swainson) Cellar Live 2026
1:54 PM		Branford Marsalis Quartet & Dianne Reeves Dedicated To You Dedicated To You 2026
1:55 PM		Cécile McLorin Salvant Sophisticated Lady With Every Breath I Take Nonesuch 2026
2:09 PM		MC5 Kick Out the Jams Kick Out the Jams Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group 1968
2:11 PM		Taste Catfish Taste Polydor Records 1969
2:18 PM		Nazz Under the Ice Nazz Nazz Purple Pyramid Records 1969
2:23 PM		Aum Aum Resurrection
2:28 PM		Aum Pachuko Boogie - Preserve You Mama Resurrection Columbia/Legacy 1969
2:30 PM		Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks I Scare Myself Original Recordings Epic/Legacy 1968
2:43 PM		The Youngbloods Get Together The Youngbloods (Their First) Legacy Recordings 1967
2:46 PM		SRC Medley: In the Hall of the Mountain King/Bolero Milestones Capitol Records (CAP) 1969
2:53 PM		New York Rock & Roll Ensemble Thinking of Mary Faithful Friends Atlantic Recording Corp. 1969
2:54 PM		Muddy Waters Mean Disposition Fathers and Sons Geffen 1969

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon!

Hello hello

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hey Mike!

Hi guys, great to see your monikers there!

Hi Rick

I don't see any monkees

Labor Day weekend, congrats

Jerry, it's be here or be square!

No monkees, but something Monkee related in the next hour

Oh my

Rick, last weekend, Trane's first album, had a baritone but I forget who

great baritone

Jerry, I heard it in the car on my way home. It was Sahib Shihab - who was one of my fave bari sax players ever! That Coltrane track blew me away!!!

Ahh, I keep thinking it was Pepper Adams. Dang good!

Good knowledge!

Hi Jerry, Mike & rick...Happy Friday, all! 🎉

There's that theme song again 🎶 🐦

Hi Christine

Hi Christine! Happy weekend!

Hey Christine!

Happy LABORWAVE weekend!

Mike, what's goin' on? Christine, big biking plans?

A morning of bloodwork and yard work

Nice!

Greetings to Gordski and his Gordskiteers. Oh Baltimore…Man it’s hard just to live !!

Hi Patrick!

Hey Patrick!

Went up to sending Ra last night but it was sold out. Told them I was friend of Gordski . They told me it’s still sold out and you are trespassing Sir!!

You're lucky you weren't arrested!

Hey Rick I sure miss those 40 man roster call ups and actual pennant races.

They wouldn’t even let me into Buzzy Buzzkirk music party. But I did get a free gift from the great Jon Solomon

Patrick, this month will be a true test for those Phightins. Yeah, the 40 man rosters have gone the way of the dinosaurs, unfortunately.

Hi it is just about silent on the stream and FM. Can barely hear speech

Hey Brian!

Bucks County PA in the house,

As can barely hear you on the web feed Jerry

Music came through fine

I'm hearing something now, when I wasn't 30 seconds before

And howdy everyone

Yah can hear music now

Hello!

Music has been audible just fine the whole time yes. Only Jerry's mic break was extreme lo volume

Fond memories of Cassandra Wilson filling in for an ailing Abby Lincoln at Charlie Parker Jazz Fest in Harlem . Blazing hot day. Then she did again next day in Tompkins Square Park RIP to a great one . One of a kind.

Hi Patrick!

Hola Senorita Christino

This track is transporting me - somewhere good.

@Jerry, I may bike on Monday. 🚲

Yes

I hope you have nice weather. I can't figure out why I am having a mic problem

Hi Robs. I'm having a mic problem, trying to fix it now

can hear u in fla ,Jerry

I have a mic problem too, I have all three streamers running and they are not in sync ;-)

I had to turn down the volume because I'm on a work call, but I'll turn up the volume a bit and let you know your mic volume level, @Jerry. 🎙

Christine (hi) and Jerry, the volume on my one currently streaming streamer is the same as the volume of New Jersey's Only Other Radio Station. So, no problems there

Thanks. The issue here is my mic. I am going to try and talk after this track. Need to know what's going on with my mic volume at that time

Sorry Robs et al

No prob, sorry I misunderstoood

well your issue may be valid also, but I am quietly bumming over here

Rob MD rocking out to Big Joe Henry and 101.5

Radio rethink has a new display on my device since 12pm

sounding good

loud and clear!

Jerry sounds good!

mic check ok

Loud and clear! Thanks Jerry!

Shout out to the great John Weingart as he enters year 52 on the radio

@Patrick White, what station is that?

Don't be bumming, Herry!

Sounding great, @Jerry 🎙

Jerseys other big station . Decent oldies on weekend but right wing kook talk during the week

Also saw her post 9/11 in battery park . She did a great show trying to help the city with the healing process.

Thanks, everybody, for your patience!

BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

looking forward to alternate woodstock!

and this cassandra wilson is lovely too!

Haha, Thanks Chef. I definitely think you will enjoy!

Jerry!!!

G Jax, how the hell you doin'?

Chris Whitley great guitar player. I almost killed him a couple years before he died but I won’t get into that here. Ha ha.

i’m doing. Well. Well, sort of.

JG with GM

I hope you are doing well!

ET, it is what it is!

G Jax, your health ok?

lol. Wait wait- hold on wait! I know that melody.

yes you do

physical health is fine. Just life been a little trying lately. Eh you get through these things.

That you do

Well Jax. Eventually the bleeding stops.

Bob Dobbalina enters the chat.

Well G Jax, your always positive attitude will pwer you through to triumph

I did t

slipped there

what I was starting to say was I dig this ear of Cassandra Wilson’s career

except my word should’ve been era, not ear

Definitely. It's what catapaulted her into stardom

a little bit of Eddie Son House, always good

wow, I didn’t know she passed. Shocked.

Hi Jim. You are a master of American music.

G Jax, on Sept. 2

I just got in, Cassandra is no more? That is often the case sometimes around these parts. When I hear blocks of someone, that's flag!

Yes, an instantaneous bad vibe and reason to fear

Keep it tight.

Also genius, hard to differentiate.

rhythm section never gets proper credit.

Cow bell people!

Who also have blocks of hollow wood!

Frenchtown has that cool flea market!

qu'est-ce que

Englishtown and Frenchtown would make Canadians insane!

Great Bacharach tune!

Haha Cowbell People. Makes me think of SNL

Right on, Rick

They carry sticks Jerry! Gotta watch those percussionist people carefully!

Dangerous people!

They hit shit!

Jerry and I had marching sticks when we were kids

Provided by Happy the Clown

Yep!!

'would make Canadians insane' It was the pre-Cambrian shield that did it for me.

Roffle has spoken

Those ancient rocks up around Hudson Bay! They just don't care about time... Love that.

The Palisades

I was born in the Bronx. I got some Palisade cred... lol

aint no rhythm section like the one we got

before the protection of the palisades laws were past- the firms did a lot of witchcraft on those rocks.

Dark witchcraft.

I'm diggin' this arrangement of "Witchcraft".

Ain't no Voodoo like you do...

Cassandra really brought out the anti Vietnam War aspect of Clarksville

Who do?

We do?

Thank you

Of corse, we make do...

says you

Silly boo you!

Cuckoo

tru

Solid though and through

I can't spell with finger so

50 years ago local entertainment options included. Merle and Doc Watson,House of Assembly , David Brenner,Tom T. Hall,Yul Brenner King and I, Zero Mostel in Fiddler,Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain

Thanks, Patrick!

I feel like Amy Winehouse is in this ghost pageant somewhere.

Good stuff!

this is just post war? or mid 50's? so fantastic. NYC recording studios?

speaking of Amy Winehouse- I did buy a recent release- track 5 has an Amy vibe.

He’s Not My Baby, I’m HiM

These are all new releases

Great show Jerry and as always you introduce me to musicians and history to raise my level!

Nice and tight 2026 set. I also respect those that are still breathing. Those others got no show on the schedule.

ok. Cool. So much music is crafted on the recording board. McCluhan proposed his Tetrad theory. So after so much beautiful music as recorded- punk rockers wanted to burn it all down.

Great, Stewart. That's what I aim for. Im really glad you appreciate.

We burned it all down Elias! Sorry about that...

Listeners here on the chat too. Thanks for sharing.

saw FOD the other week. Rock and Roll!

also Beethoven's 7th 2nd movement is cool too.

That orchestra sounds as good as the Metropole Orchestra!

Put the Oxford Encyclopedia of Music into a punker's hands. It had results.

You're so pretty vacant

The Blues had a baby- we named the baby Rock and Roll. But we were mostly illiterate. Thus vomiting in the mens room.

If no one answers, probably no one there. :)

Anyone in the area of South Brunswick/ Monmouth Junction area their municipal senior center is running a series of moderately priced concerts. I saw Nat adderley jr on the schedule.

I dated a Buffalo girl. We went round and round. Like a record baby

I only show up for Herb Adderley.

Shout out to Nat Jr, Catherine Russell, Joshua Redman and Nicole Glover for wonderful performances at last Saturday’s Charlie Parker Jazz fest at Marcus Garvey Park

Herb Adderley The Pride of the old Northeast High

I must say, my friend ownes a hotel in Montana, and the Buffalo Girls band stayed there. I just happened to live in town at the time. LOL

Joshua Redman. Son of Dewey Redman. I actually bought one of his records at some random record shop on -3 street in Philly. I won't lie. I hated it.

These cats were too much for those Woodstock hippies.

Nice, Patrick! What a line up! ET, don't wait too long for Herb Adderley

we sold the film rights for ONE MILLION DOLLAR

Lawrence Welk was supposed to appear at Woodstock but opted out after a volatile breakup with Grace Slick

his orchestra was stuck on 87 northbound.

I heard he was on a bender

His bubble machine didn't travel well

Hahaha

plus Jorma Kaukonen was armed and had been hanging out with David Crosby all weekend.

Wildness!

Inspired his later one toke over the line performance

Croz and Jorma wanted to put the song Triad to good use

I'm on a bender! If I die it's natural causes at this point! LOL

Haha Patrick.!

Bring Jax some spring water, if you can.

Mike, obscure but funny. Roffle, after all these years of drinking, should be fine by now!

Obscure is my middle name

I gave my liver a offer it could not refuse. :)

ǝuᴉʇuɐʇsuoƆ ǝʞᴉW

It's in its final state, like beef jerky.

a ha. Attu Sees All.

My fav Nazz song

Ha! ET!

Shout out to Dolly Parton for facing down Colonel Parker and not selling her publishing rights for I Will Always. Colonel said E. Would record only on his terms. Straight up C and W baller

But I will not be sad, and I love jerky myself.

TMI

It's why we love Dolly!

and I love jerky myself. wot?

Mike, he wasn't talking about that, although he devotes a good amount of time to that I imagine

while 9 to 5 is playing.

Don't we all

I also wantonly abuse instruments, that don't cooperate. lol

or possibly 6 to 1. then off to the washroom.

Drummer doing his best Keith Moon. Doing it very well I must say.

Yeah...like leaving a cello in Texas

G Jax, I always think of the drumming on this track as the ULTIMATE rock drumming, absolutely!

Put in an attic for 40 years and see what happens!

Spacehog copped this beginning

They did!

@Mike, There is a guitar right next to it that was made the same year I was too. I should stop being a dork and go get them....

That is psychedelic. Defines psychedelic.

Hell yeah....might be a little warped but hey.....

maybe u left a case of Shiltz there too

Aiffrig, I heard when you moved to Florida ou hired a moving fan just to bring cases of Schlitz

They are cured woods by now, or something I will need to consult a capable Lutherie either way... .

You got nothin' on Stradivarius

tullamore dew 18 yr old version can't get it here

... Although I wasn't really drunk at the time...

Good stuff Aiff

Todd at Woodstock would have been worth its own documentary. Imagine him micro managing the other acts with his inner producer skills.

Wow, two songs by Aum! That's awesome!

Todd would have been pissed that Pete tried to brain Abbie Hoffman

Hey Chris! The two songs that end the album

Mike, like a great person once said... obscure

Stradivarius was given wood by the Gods!

TMI once again

I can file a fret, but after that, I want to talk to someone. lol

Way past setups!

good wood can b hard to find

That's what she said....oy vey

a good man is hard to find. And vice versa

Ha!

That's what she said aiffrig

Everyone have a great weekend and enjoy The Labor Day weekend

Yay, Thanks for the Nazz/Todd tune! My fav...one of my fav Nazz tunes too...Yes, i wonder were they played in '69 ?

The GP rating is being challenged here.

I think they may have broken up by then, Shelia the K

wait what? Is this a Nirvana cover?

thought you were gonna say “I’d like to teach the world to sing…” but that seems later than 69. I think that was a commercial first.

tea r it all down. Try. lol. the Tetrad rules

Hi Sheila!

Sheila the K!

You just might find it in a cutoff bin if you really have the time Elias

You smart people are so lovely! Then nuts get cracked!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yNPgx0swCM

you had to know that jerry

Hive mind. Speaking of Woodstock. What happened with Joni? Was she there? Did she get caught in traffic?

No Joni

Neither, JC

And then immediately wrote "Woodstock"

Geffen took her out of the lineup

But she saw the bombers coming turning ito butterfly's. Fuck man! Put her in charge!

Indeed

I guess Van der Graff Generator is on the turntable next?

No, they were squeezed out even in the imaginary dimension!

lol

And of course no Soft Machine

Hi Jerry. Just stopping by to say how great your show is & thx chat for giving me something to entertaining to read

Ahank you, Amy Lee! Please enter the chat more often!

JG with GM

Love it! what an honored appellation!

*GM is a wholly owned patent. Please check with WRTI for rights. ;)

So I can't fill my Chevy Down by the Levy anymore? Good to know.

* he was one of the greatest Philly DJS!

Why bring Lee Paris into this?

George Michaels?

Jerry, your show beautifully kicked off this long holiday weekend! That was a meaningful tribute to Cassandra Wilson. Everybody have a great weekend!

Lee Paris....Rock of the 80's

ET, you are way old school

Thank you so much Jerry! The things I learn about here are truly amazing to me, and me is all that counts as it should for us all since we hear though just these ears! Be well, we will drink that beer sooner than later. I promise!

Awesome show Jer! Have a wonderful Labor Day weekend too!!

no it aint

There's beer???

Bob Perkins with Good Music. Loooong time RTI dj spinning jazz.

Till next time

Thanks, Roffle! You Sheila, Mike, everybody makes the show fun

Yes Mike, beer...

Thanks, Sheila, backatcha!