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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Sep 11, 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!

9.11.26

2 hours of exceptional, new modern jazz releases followed by the Soul music of 1969.

12:01 PM		Charlie Hunter, Corey Fonville, Andrew Randazzo & DJ Harrison Afrobeat Ad Space Bomb SideHustle 2026
12:05 PM		Jah Wobble & Tian Qiyi Blue Jay Way Mystic Liverpool: The Beatles Psychedelic Psongbook 30 Hertz 2026
12:18 PM		Charles Lloyd Sam on the Ganges Sangam & Friends Blue Note Records 2026
12:25 PM		Albert Castiglia Afro Blue Grits & Glory SoNo Recording Group 2026
12:27 PM		Eric Alexander Serenade To A Cuckoo Timing Is Everything Cellar Live 2024
12:53 PM		Mike Stern Peace Standards (And Other Songs) Craft Recordings 1992
12:54 PM		Ray Charles America the Beautiful A Message From The People Tangerine Records 1972
12:56 PM		Chris Hazelton Speedball In Rotation Cellar Live 2026
12:56 PM		Chris Potter Airegin Live At Emmett's Place
1:13 PM		Steven Bernstein Aveenu Malkenu Diaspora Blues
1:14 PM		Matt Wilson's Good Trouble Fuller Love (In Case You Missed It) Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces
1:26 PM		Jalen Baker Bemsha Blues RePaved Cellar Live 2026
1:27 PM		Leo Genovese, Takashi Sugawa & Alfred Vogel Dream Goes Wandering UNLEASHED Boomslang Records 2026
1:52 PM		Nick Hempton Born to Be Blue (feat. Peter Bernstein) Slick Triple-Distilled Records 2021
1:53 PM		Seamus Blake Listen Here EH! Plays the Music of Eddie Harris
1:57 PM		Ale Nuñez I'm Just a Lucky So and So (feat. Neil Swainson) Blue Room (feat. Neil Swainson) Cellar Live 2026
2:06 PM		The Temptations I Can't Get Next to You 50th Anniversary: The Singles Collection 1961-1971 UNI/MOTOWN 2011
2:07 PM		Junior Walker & The All Stars What Does It Take (To Win Your Love) 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: Best of Jr. Walker & the All Stars Motown 2000
2:11 PM		The Isley Brothers It's Your Thing It's our Thing 1969
2:12 PM		Stevie Wonder My Cherie Amour 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Stevie Wonder UNI/MOTOWN 2005
2:21 PM		Jerry Butler Mr. Dream Merchant 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Jerry Butler Island Mercury 2000
2:22 PM		Edwin Starr 25 Miles War - The Best of Edwin Starr Vanilla OMP 1980
2:23 PM		Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations I'm Gonna Make You Love Me Diana Ross & The Supremes Join The Temptations UNI/MOTOWN 1968
2:25 PM		Marvin Gaye I Heard It Through the Grapevine 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Marvin Gaye, Vol. 1 - The '60s Motown 1999

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody! Shana Tova!

Hi Rick, Happy Friday to you! We've got some baritones lined up for your listening pleasure

Hi Jerry. I think the calendar grid has a duplicate with Esoterica

Hey Brian!

hi Brian. For today or the entire schedule?

Greetings to Gordski and welcome to all listeners. Shana Tova.

Brian D hope you enjoyed Woodstown bluegrass festival.

Thank you very much, Senor Blanco

Hey Patrick!

Rick I don’t mind losing a game but squandering such a gutty effort by Wheeler. Oy oy oy!!

Rick, Patrick recently went to the Charlie Parker Jazz festival which he does annually. Impressive!

Just today's 12pm. When I try the usual main link for the chat right now it defaults to Esoterica

Yeah, Patrick, that was quite hard to stomach.

Wow. Thank you Brian

It happens sometimes. Mike L or someone can probably fix

This Monday Victor Wooten and the Wooten brothers free show at Camden Wiggins waterfront park. 8 pm

Jerry WHYY had a nice article about a 1976 time capsule in Philadelphia being unearthed . And then they neglected to tell what was in it . Oy Oy Oy!!!

They didn't want to mention Frank Rizzo's billyclub

He's Frank. He's Rizzo!

Of course, the other slogan was "You can bank on Frank!"

I'm diggin' the groove of this track!

He's known as a blues guitarist

50 years ago local entertainment options…..Joey Heatherton with Dom DeLuise.Roy Ayer’s with Ubiquity. Kenn Kweder and his Secret kidds. Roy Bookbinder. Chris Smither, JD Souther,John Fahey,Betty Carter,Jefferson Starship and Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gainor in the King and I

And the bass player's got it goin' on!

I was actually listening to Marvin Rosen program on 9/11. Not sure why he was on a Tuesday morning.

After he announced I switched to that chucklehead Imus who actually did a good job with coverage.

Jerry, such an appropriate tune on this day.

His sports guy Warner Wolf lived right there and gave heart wrenching play by play of the events.

I remember driving home from work that day (JPMorgan Chase closed all operations around 1 p.m. that day). Driving north on Rt. 309 was eerily quiet - almost no cars on the road.

Yep, a terrible day.

Not to be petty, but...How was the volume on my mic?

This is THE killer version of "America the Beautiful".

The volume is very good today.

To quote GWB ….I can hear you . And the rest of the world can hear you loud and clear. !!!

That bari sax is coming through loud and clear!!!

Thanks,Rick and thanks Patrick! Haha I'm a little distracted today trying to get this chat fixed

Is that a real GWB quote, I don't remember it

Bari sax and B-3 on the same track - euphoria!

One of his high points . He visited the destruction and one of the firefighters yelled We Can’t Hear You !

Was Third Street Jazz still open then Jerry ?

Shanah tovah, Jerry

Happy 83rd Birthday Mickey Hart. The only Brooklynite in the Dead.

For F's FREEKIN sake....I made it in

I had sold it by then. Don;t know if it was open. I was in Chicago. Like everyone else, I thought we were under attack. Had to take a trane home even

Hey Mike!

Mike, please explain to me how you did it so I can explain to the others in the future if I have to. Welcome in here

Hi gang. Live long and prosper. srry, i was just watching the first season.

contra alto clarinet. weird

Haha! ET, is this working now?

Or did you have to do something special?

I do not know. as I get older I find there were so many thing I thought I knew. Turned out I had just eaten some window pane.

Brian, thank you for your help today, and for that Mickey Hart information!

So the schedule box was split between sonic bloom and cuckoo. Clicked on cuckoo but I couldn't sign into chat, it bounced me so I restarted, cleared the cache and I was able to sign in via Facebook....Jeeeeeezzus!

ET, that reminds me of the Cheech and Chong movie scene where they are so high they didn't realize they were parked on the equivalent of the Expressway

Any other way into the play list brought up Sonic Bloom. The playlist was as if her show was on with songs beeing added

Thank you, Mike

I dated Joey Heater Tone- She also doubled on Sax.

One of my faves

I dated Totie Fields

Patrick, didn't Bo Belinsky as well?

Mickey Hart perhaps the only living rock musician who attended a game at Ebbetts Field.

I dated JM Fields discount record table, albums for 17 cents

Nothing like the time when I went to the back door of every restaurant in Paris France. Asking for free food. Tropic of Saxophone.

Bo Belinsky dated Mamie Van Doren .

I am still looking for the real pernod that causes brain damage

you guys are nuts Nuts to Scrat.

Absinthe?

I know I can always depend on my man Mike Constantine who knows this stuff! Your patents raised an educated boy! You nailed it Mike, thank you

If I find brisket in the bin, at 50% off, I will cook it into the next century. Then add the potent green liquor. While reciting Foucault in backwards trance en Francais.

A friend of mine get Absinthe every once in a while from I think Belarus. It's a very interesting high

You two know how to host a proper party

It made the last Eagles superbowl very interesting

Ha, Absinthe! I think I've lost enough brain cells, however

What would Henry Miller do?

I figure what's a few million more

Ah....the Bohemian life

This is good. Sipping some top-shelf cognac would go very well while listening to this track.

Mel Torme, star of Night Court

The people in this chat are the greatest!

Rick, this is your kind of performer, he runs around the venue and plays in the aisles

Nice!

Nothing is better than that except a Mike Constantine party

I once heard Alice Cooper on a radio interview sing a really bad song parody titled Stairway to Heatherton . I really hate the placement of the (SEND) button on phones man o man. Just not user friendly at all.

It's time to honk!

Ha!

Jerry the Larry Fine mural still exists. A taco bar took over but kept the mural .

Was that Jon's?

Larry Fine, My spiritual guide! Will Constantine's favorite family!

Yeah Mike that place fell apart. Hey Moe is today Taco Tuesday??

Larry has always been my fav Stooge

Wow! THAT is deep, Mr. Absinthe

Can’t believe I missed the ambler Theater Stoogefest again . A most revolting development !!

His comedic timing is perfection

Love it!

Stairway to Heatherton

Hairway to Steven

I'll go with ET on that one

Shoutout to 1969 summer of soul free concert at Harlems Marcus Garvey Park 300 k attendees .

BRETT She... she’s buying a stairway to heaven! JULES (Slamming his hand on the table) And when she gets there, she knows if the stores are all closed, with a word she can get what she came for! GROUCHO (To Chico) I didn’t hear anything. CHICO Well, that’s because he didn’t say anything. Did you hear anything yet? GROUCHO I don’t a think so. But if she’s buying a stairway, I hope she gets it wholesale. Personally, I prefer an elevator. It has more ups and downs, like my first marriage. T

I wouldn't be surprised if you had been there, Patrick

Haha, ET. Do you keep that dialogue by your pohone or have you memorized it and place in words as necessary

I did a mix of Stairway to heaven, the famous Samuel L Jackson scene, from Pulp Fiction and the Marx Bros.

It's Your Thing: the bass line that separates the pros from the beginners. Many think that the main part on bass is just 3 notes but that's the lead guitar actually. The bass part is a bit more involved. Gotta hear in headphones or hear it isolated. There are more notes than meet the ear. Great part, great track, great players.

My Mother bought me this single out of the blue....never figured out why

Love this.

Thanks, Brian. We have coming up a track with totally revolutionary life-changing bass also

Rainbow in the Sky. i was fascinated Stevie one of the GOATs

Hi Esoterica!

Hi, Jerry!

Shana Tovah, thanks for tuning in!!!

Shana Tovah! I always try to tune in, even if I can not get on the chat.:)

pour scotch on haggis. remember the past.

Bob Brainen WFMU did a nice Stevie retrospective 3 weeks in a row . What a great run. Surprised he didn’t play what I feel is greatest Stevie cover . David Ruffin heaven help us all

Mike, nobody else's (or not too many) were buying their kid contemporary p op singles, a tribute to your oh so sweet and hip Mother who may have heard it before buying it

ESO little mixup today you almost had your chad invaded by a coterie of Alter Kochers.

It was odd, I wouldn't be listening to Stevie until Innervisions

I spoke with Anita once. She played Inner Visions. Claimed she heard the left hand volume dial clicking to off as the cars rolled down the Boulevard.

hey Patrick, I saw that mix up referenced in the chat. Obvs got fixed:)

Yep, it's fixed

Some o the best songs are pert durn obsessed heh. I'm gonna make ya! So there!

I believe my father purchased a Stevie Wonder sings Irish Republican Army Ballads LP .

I think he had the double album

Yeah...that one is better than Secret Life Of Plants

Your father was a writer? A composer of ballads. ?

Eat the Beetles

Let it Eat

There it is Jerry! Low low slappin from Larry Graham!

Bought the Family Stone best of at Franklin Music for this very song

Let it Eat.... a band that would last a lunchtime

Lol!....right!

I hadn't figured Esoterica for a Scot. I had her in the City with her record collection. and some random bonds found in her older brothers record collections.

paying 5%

5 percent for nothing

Esoterica is a whole bunch of good things, the Dolly Parton of the DJ community

ha, thanks, Jerry

yes, ET, my bros with the counter collections (from Frampton to Gentle Giant!).

Enjoying baseball from Wrigley Field on mute while listening to Gordski

show me the way to two weeks in Spain

Gordski-rootie-mcvadio-zoot

you got it, Constantine

Isn’t this that guy from South Park !?

And Rockford Files?

Roquefort Flies

That stinks

JB!!!!

Do you think anyone ever fell asleep at a James Brown concert?

Jerry McVouty Skiv Al-reety Nail An Avocado Seedy To The Roof and That Will Fix It. Just mellow maaaannn

Everyone have a great weekend. Shout out to Gordski for some high level programming

It was awful polite of James Brown to always ask Bobby Byrd's permission to: a) Count it off, b) take it to the bridge etc

We have a bunch of entertainers, improvisers, and comedians in this chat. Thank you, everyone!

Have a good one patrick

Thanks, Patrick! Thanks to those who fought their way into the chat today (innovative)

haha, Brian. I love that shtick

This is from the misleading but really fun and funky Sex Machine lp that had different versions of this and title track

As in total different re recorded versions.

Late to the party again. Hi and bye!

Hi Rob!

Jerry, you hit a home run today with your show in all regards - timely, appropriate, very enjoyable! Everybody have a good weekend! Shana Tova.

Thanks so much, Rick. That truly makes me tearful,you are the best

Great show Jerry!

Till next time......L'shanah tovah!!!

Mike, Brian, thank you for your contributions