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Serenade to a Cuckoo

Dec 4, 2020 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

Two hours of new jazz releases, followed by one hour in Jerry's Room of 12 great blues harpists of the last 35 years

12.4.20

12:00 PM		Barrett Martin Group Ichcha (feat. Mehnaz Hoosein) Scattered Diamonds Sunyata Records 2020
12:00 PM		Aldo Romano Annobon Reborn Le Triton 2020
12:04 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:08 PM		Noah Preminger The Late 90s Contemptment SteepleChase 2020
12:18 PM		Marshall Gilkes Longing for Home (feat. Yasushi Nakamura & Clarence Penn) Waiting to Continue Alternate Side Records 2020
12:24 PM		Grégoire Maret, Romaine Collin, Bell Frisell Wichita Lineman Americana Act 2020
12:30 PM		Jeff Cosgrove, John Medeski & Jeff Lederer Wood Flute Song History Gets Ahead of the Story Grizzley Music 2020
12:34 PM		Eric Reed It's You or No One For Such a Time as This Smoke Sessions 2020
12:49 PM		Richard Howell Moon Over Tiburon Moon Over Tirburon
12:56 PM		Michael Feinberg Crystalize (feat. Melanie Charles & Immanuel Wilkins) Crystalize (feat. Melanie Charles & Immanuel Wilkins) - Single MFMusic 2020
12:58 PM		Papo Vazquez & His Mighty Pirates Troubadors No Te Rindas Chapter 10: Breaking Cover
1:07 PM		Rifflet-Irabagon-Boisseau-Black America: Daybreak Rebellions 2020
1:10 PM		Rob Mazurek & Exploding Star Orchestra Autumn Pleiades Dimensional Stardust International Anthem/Nonesuch 2020
1:15 PM		The Nels Cline Singers Beam/Spiral Share The Wealth Blue Note Records 2020
1:24 PM		Terje Rypdal As If The Ghost … Was Me!? Conspiracy ECM Records 2020
1:29 PM		Ben Wendel High Heart High Heart Edition Records 2020
1:36 PM		Joel Ross After the Rain Who Are You? Blue Note Records 2020
1:44 PM		John Hollenbeck Fire and Rain (feat. Kate McGarry, Hans Glawischnig & Christian Jaksjö) Songs You Like a Lot Flexatonic Records 2020
1:58 PM		Ian Hendrickson-Smith I Should Care The Lowdown Cellar Live 2020
2:06 PM		Studebaker John & The Hawks Harpology Howl With the Wolf Evidence
2:17 PM		Billy Boy Arnold I Ain't Got You Eldorado Cadillac Alligator Records & Artist Mgmt. Inc. 1995
2:17 PM		The James Cotton Blues Band The Creeper Pure Cotton Buddha
2:22 PM		Paul deLay Band Over Money Heavy Rotation Evidence
2:22 PM		The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Work Song East-West Elektra Asylum 1966
2:30 PM		Sugar Blue My Baby Caught A Train Crossroads
2:37 PM		Kid Ramos with Kim Wilson Real Gone Lover West Coast House Party Evidence
2:45 PM		Billy Branch & The Sons of Blues Blue and Lonesome Roots and Branches: The Songs of Little Walter Alligator Records 2019
2:49 PM		William Clarke Please Let Me Be Your Santa Claus The Alligator Records Christmas Collection Alligator Records 1992
2:49 PM		Frank Frost Frank's Boogie Woogie Keep Yourself Together Evidence
2:52 PM		Kid Ramos with Charlie Musselwhite Rich Man's Woman On A Poor man's pay Greasy Kid Stuff Evidence
2:57 PM		Carey Bell When I Get Drunk Essential Drinking Blues Alligator Records - X5 Music Group 2013

Chat is archived.

Welcome, everbody, thanks for tuning in!

Hey DJ Jerry! *waves* 👋

So happy to hear Serenade today. TGIF

i Christine, really nice to hear from you

Sorry, I was just daydreaming

That's the perfect thing to do. Great music! 💎

thanks, Christine

Have you been busy today?

Too busy with interfering work! Don't they know I've a radio show to listen to?

Ha! Here you are, doing them a favor, working from home, and then they tie you up.

The audacity of these employers...

Damn, that track Moon Over Tiburon was gorgeous.

You are so right, another beautiful jazz track that came out of nowhere. Perfection. You are always able to hear that beauty.

Thanks for playing this one - I love Rypdal and haven't heard this record yet.

Hi Bud, it sounds great, doesn't it?

Yep, great atmospheric piece.

Yeah, Terje Rypdal has still got it. Doesn't sound stale at all.

I think it will be a shame if nobody cares anymore about his artistry

I agree, Dave. But I don't hear anyone talking about this record, or see the excitement there once was

For sure. It's great that he's recording again, and I hope it raises his profile. I assume he's probably more known in Europe than the US in general.

Yeah, I guess, I really don't know. But I remember when he sold a little. So do you and Dave the Obscure.

True, and was he always on ECM? There was a time when I pretty much wanted everything on that label.

Yes. I have noticed that is no longer the case with people

Unfortunately, music has become a commodity, something to have in the background.

Interesting observation!

Terje Rypdal has been really loyal to ECM. Besides his debut, and collaborations with others, his releases are always on ECM.

Thanks for clarifying that - I thought I remembered him being an ECM guy from the beginning.

The Esoteric Circle https://www.discogs.com/artist/1415565-The-Esoteric-Circle

Dave, you go back to those days?

I discovered good music around 1978.

That super group sounds intriguing though.

They were youngsters, all undiscovered.

Wow, yeah, that looks like a fantastic record.

Until George Russell endorsed them and used them to record, as I recall.

Manfred Eicher snatched them all up.

The album was hardly available in 1978. Good job

Surprisingly, I see it's on Spotify. I'll be giving it a listen and expect it to go on my purchase list.

Also on this album, late sixties https://www.discogs.com/George-Russell-The-Essence-Of-George-Russell/release/1122669

Wow, that looks intriguing too.

"Another fine tune you've got me into."

George Russell, so deep. Way deep.

An important contributor to modern jazz

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Essence_of_George_Russell

Thanks for another fantastic show, DJ Jerry!

Thank you, Christine! Have a nice weekend!

This song is about a guy who wants to know who it is that will take him home when he gets drunk!