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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Nov 13, 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!

11.13.26

Best Jazz of 2026 Part II / Austin Blues Explosion

12:07 PM		Franklin Kiermyer Bayaka Mosambo Scatter The Atoms That Remain Gearbox Records Ltd 2026
12:08 PM		Tigran Hamasyan One Body, One Blood Manifeste Naive 2026
12:16 PM		Joseph Tawadros Ancient Lamentations (feat. Jack DeJohnette) Conversations with Jack (feat. Jack DeJohnette) Joseph Tawadros 2026
12:21 PM		James Brandon Lewis Quartet The Sermon Omni Intakt 2026
12:27 PM		Patricia Brennan & Sylvie Courvoisier Perdidos en el Lamento Talamanti Antlia Records 2026
12:38 PM		Gregory Hutchinson Feio (feat. Ambrose Akinmusire, Ron Blake, Jakob Bro, Emmanuel Michael, Gerald Clayton, Joe Sanders) Kind of Now - The Pulse of Miles Davis Warner Music Central Europe 2026
12:39 PM		Zaccai Curtis Last Call Sonoluminescence Vol. 1
12:43 PM		Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band They Speak No Evil In The Brass Palace Big Shoulders Records 2026
12:54 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1963
1:14 PM		Stefon Harris & Blackout Legacy Dances (feat. Casey Benjamin) Legacy Dances (feat. Casey Benjamin) Motema Music, LLC 2026
1:15 PM		Nat Reeves Appointment in Ghana Now In Time Cellar Live 2026
1:37 PM		Dave Adewumi Infinite Loop The Flame Beneath the Silence Dave Adewumi Music 2026
1:38 PM		Kirk Knuffke Brother John Brother SteepleChase 2026
1:38 PM		Ardeshir Pourkeramati featuring Cory Weeds Blues Up and Down Introducing
1:47 PM		Conrad Herwig Windows The Latin Side of Chick Corea Savant 2026
1:51 PM		Matt Wilson's Good Trouble Anyone Who Had A Heart Love Is The Whole Thing, We Are Only Pieces Palmetto+ 2026
1:53 PM		Joe Lovano Amsterdam (with. Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano & Will Calhoun) Paramount Quartet (with. Julian Lage, Asante Santi Debriano & Will Calhoun) ECM Records 2026
2:09 PM		Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Texas Flood Texas Flood (Legacy Edition) Epic/Legacy 1983
2:12 PM		Angela Strehli Mean Mistreater Soul Shake New West Records 1988
2:20 PM		Lou Ann Barton It's Raining Read My Lips New West Records 1989
2:21 PM		Lou Ann Barton w/Angela Strehli & Marcia Ball Good Rockin' Daddy Dreams Come True
2:24 PM		W.C. Clark Cold Shot Heart of Gold Black Top 1994
2:26 PM		Jimmie Vaughan Bad Bad Whiskey The Pleasure's All Mine: The Complete Blues, Ballads and Favorites Sessions The Last Music Company 2020
2:54 PM		The Fabulous Thunderbirds She's Tuff Girls Go Wild The Last Music Company 1979
2:54 PM		Kid Ramos Dead Love Kid Ramos Evidence Music 1999
2:58 PM		Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Tin Pan Alley (aka Roughest Place In Town) Couldn't Stand the Weather Epic/Legacy 1983
3:00 PM		Angela Strehli Big Town Playboy Soul Shake New West Records 1988

Chat is archived.

Welcome to Serenade to a Cuckoo!

Hello hello

Happy Friday to Jerry and everybody!

Hey Mike!

Hi Rick

Pledge.WPRB.com

Hi guys, thanks very much for being here!

No Eagles to freak us out today on Friday the 13th

Jerry, you're keeping us off the streets.

I know, you two would be gang members otherwise!

I always wanted to be Cool Earl.

Is that the guy who tagged everything in sight?

Greetings to Gordski and his apostles. And a Happy Mother Cabrini day to all

Yes, indeedy!

Hey Patrick!

Hi Patrick, thanks to you I know more Catholic holidays than many of my friends. Here's some music to go along with it.

Was planning on ingesting peyote pre show but I found another psychedelic experience. Found a you tube episode of F Troop featuring a rock group called the Bedbugs . Fronted by Lowell George. Like way gone daddy o

Patrick, you're sounding like Maynard G. Krebs.

Hola Senor Rick . To be honest our graffiti artist were a bit lame compared to NYC

The graffiti artistic value on the freight trains coming through Bethlehem, PA is something to behold these days.

Happy Friday the 13th!

Hey Roffle!

Hi Roffle! Yes, Roffle was arrested more than once tagging hot spots on South Street, using his handle Kool Roffle

Bring on the coats.

My heat went out 3 or 4 days ago and it got dang cold at night. My dogs were "nestled" in my underarms and between my legs. Spoiled!

I watch those trains go by, but speed reading graffiti is beyond my skillset.

Three dog night. :)

My heater has yet to fire up. Thinking this weekend it will

When I did my walk/jog this morning I had 8 layers on + gloves.

You must have it set fairly low

62 at the moment

Are you the abominable snowman?

Nope....the retired guy on social security!

SS doesn't even keep you in martinis!

Hmmmmm...vodka or heating oil....a difficult choice!

You can’t beat Bethlehem graffiti. Lehigh Valley forever

Patrick, sometimes I walk right past the Norfolk and Southern rail yards. What a sight!

Mike, my vote is for the vodka.

That's good work by you, Rick

50 years ago local entertainment….John Dever. W , Chicago…Jimmy Cliff w/Ian Mathew’s…Roy Ayer’s Ubiquity……Kenny Rankin.Hugh Masakela.Doobiesw/ Rory Gallagher….Hot Tuna..Charlie Gracie..Sergio Franchi

My kind of town Philadelphia!

Shoutout to the great Esoterica on her 10 year PRB anniversary

Great indeed

Kurt Elling is hip! Esoterica is even hipper!

I'm diggin' this track so much!!!

Your boys, the WDR Big Band

He is so expressive, so him!

The WDR Big Band is truly world class!

Kurt Elling at times sounds like Mark Murphy, who was one of my faves.

Do you have a favorite vocalist?

Excellent solo!!!

Nobody did Kerouac readings like Mark Murphy .

My favorite vocalists were Eddie Jefferson, Mark Murphy, Betty Carter and Lena Horne and Sue Raney.

Patrick is a bard, traveling throughout the east coast and pollinating it with the best music, jokes, and thoughts

Wow Rick!

I tried to give Jerry but they returned my check and told me to go find another station. No Respect No Respect

Woof!

Jerry - I am listening and thank you for the shout out! You made my day!

Haha! Billy, may my appreciation for. you sail through the universe, you deserve it! Glad you were listening!

Junior knows damn well I am doing a show and uses that to extort treats. He knows, he waits until the mic is on to carry on.

I told you not to let him watch that 1001 Dalmatians movie. You got him all worked up

That one really gets him arroused

Thanks, Russ!

Patricia Brennan and Sylvie Courvoisier are performing together at WinterFest in NYC on January 15: https://www.winterjazzfest.com/wjf-manhattan-marathon-27

City Paper gone. Inquirer weekend section demolished. NYT pale imitation. But thankfully we still have Russ Woessner!!

True that, Patrick!

@Patrick 🙏😀

Rick

Schwing!!!

Haha

I love this interpretation of this classic tune!

You are the listener with the GE (good ears). Exceptional!

This that nice vibe.

I need to know who that was

That was incredible!

Hi Tom, drummer Matt Wilson's latest album. "Love Is the Whole Thing"

All I have to say is Van Wilks.

What knowledge from Roffle Ray Dyslexia!

I saw Stevie and Greg Allman at Pier 84 in NYC 1987

What a show

No way! UNREALLL

You were "blessed"!

I saw SRV open for the Moody Blues....weird double bill

Wut?

What do you remember from that night, if anything?

Exactly

A variety of chemicals and dirty martinis

A requirement

That's alot of octane there, guy

I remember quite a bit. It was the Spectrum and I saw my first girlfriend from 1 sitting a few sections over but I lost her when the show ended.

Is that '71?

Eleventh grade

What great musical taste!

I hear that bari sax holding up the bottom!

Frickin' A

It don't get much better than this!

I hope you can complete this broadcast before the predicted end of the world today.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.132.3436.1291

Spent my weekends in Austin in the early 80's and it was magic. 6th Street was over the top. Love this show Jerry!

Was Kim Wilson wearing his Fez?

Hi David thanks for the heads up!

Roffle, another piece of the man of many names and many historis is revealed. That is ;insane, you are the man! Did not know that, Johnny!

If you’re doing the great Austin blues players don’t forget Albert Collins

@Dave Shortell, Robert Thomas Malthus! LOL

No Fez, Mike! Handsome looking cat without weirdness.

Hi Thomas!

Hi Jerry just tuning in

Glad you're here!

Jerry, your show gave me the opportunity to put the 2026 version of the Eagles on the back burner. Unlike the Eagles, your show was exciting and truly enjoyable!!! Everybody enjoy your weekend!

haha, Rick, great! Yes, our time to recover as well!

Till next time