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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Feb 5, 2021 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

With Jerry Gordon

Two hours of new jazz releases, one hour of the Animals 1963-1966

2.5.21

12:01 PM		Ben Goldberg & Kenny Wollesen First Massage Music for an Avant-Garde Massage Parlour BAG Production Records 2020
12:17 PM		A Love Supreme Electric: Vinny Golia & Henry Kaiser The Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost A Love Supreme and Meditations 2020
12:17 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:17 PM		Lee Smith Recorda Me Faith In the New Day
12:29 PM		Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio Call Your Mom I Told You So Colemine Records 2021
12:33 PM		R+R=NOW Change of Tone Collagically Speaking (feat. Robert Glasper, Terrace Martin, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Derrick Hodge, Taylor McFerrin & Justin Tyson) Blue Note (BLU) 2018
12:42 PM		Diego Rivera The Secret Life of Plants Indigenous Posi-Tone Records 2021
12:47 PM		Joe Chambers Visions Samba de Maracatu Blue Note Records 2021
12:52 PM		Diego Pinera Blue Monk Odd Wisdom ACT Music 2021
1:05 PM		Brooklyn Raga Massive In D, Pt. 2: Raga Bairagi In D Brooklyn Raga Massive 2020
1:30 PM		Muriel Grossmann Peaceful River Quiet Earth Dreamlandrecords 2020
1:34 PM		Moses Boyd Stranger Than Fiction Dark Matter Exodus Records 2020
1:35 PM		Shai Maestro Mystery and Illusions Human ECM Records 2021
1:44 PM		Dave Stryker Tough (feat. Walter Smith III) Baker's Circle Strikezone Records 2021
1:51 PM		Tom Tallitsch Mablestates Duality Tom Tallitsch 2005
1:57 PM		Jane Ira Bloom and Mark Helias Some Kind of Tomorrow Some Kind Of Tomorrow
2:12 PM		The Animals House of the Rising Sun The Animals ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:13 PM		The Animals Baby Let Me Take You Home The Animals Parlophone UK 2003
2:15 PM		The Animals Boom Boom The Animals On Tour ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:19 PM		The Animals I'm Crying The Animals On Tour ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:22 PM		The Animals We Gotta Get Out of This Place Animal Tracks ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:24 PM		The Animals Bring It On Home to Me Animal Tracks ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:27 PM		The Animals It's My Life Animal Tracks ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:30 PM		The Animals Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Animal Tracks ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:34 PM		The Animals Roadrunner Animal Tracks ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
2:38 PM		The Animals Rock Me Baby Animalism
2:43 PM		The Animals Hey Gyp Animalism Universal Music Canada 1991
2:47 PM		The Animals Goin' Down Slow Animalism
2:53 PM		The Animals Don't Bring Me Down (Stereo Version) Animalization ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013
3:04 PM		The Animals Cheating (Stereo Version) Animalization ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 2013

Chat is archived.

Hi, Everyone! Welcome!

Hello Jerry.It’s

Hey Patrick, how are you today?

Good day Jerry!

Hi Brian, thanks for being here!

Patrick, how is your family?

Howdy Jerry, looking forward to the show!

Dude, what is happening?

The nice thing about people who come to the listener's lounge here is that the like different types of music.

I am not sure if I could get a massage to this! Sounds wild, though.

Ha, hey Jimbeaux!

Been tuning in from NH for a while now, first time in the chat. Fell in love with this station a few years ago when I spent a lot of time in Philly. Loved First Massage, I'm actually reading a Durarara book right now and the song sounds straight off of the show's soundtrack

Hi John! Thanks for tuning in.

I just looked up Durarara. A 13 volume comicbook/novel?

Hi, Jerry! 👋 Hi, everyone in the chat!

Hi Christine, how are you?

This album playing now is by Lee Smith, a Philly bass pllayer. the album's personnel are all philly locals. It is nice to hear and see

I can never get enough of the flutist, Marc Adler. This is soprano Tim Warfield

Recorda me (ray-corda may.... remember me in Spanish )

Bit delayed but not much Jerry, prb and working! Loved the noisy start to the show!

Marc Adler is really an amazing talent.

Thank you for that, Brian! Good info for me! Dude, glad you are well. I love that Trane noise that sounds downright organic!

Hey Jerry this week is 50th Anniv of Philadelhpia International Records. Maybe a tribute hour in Jerry's Room coming up? Gamble and Huff greatness

Christine, he put out one or two CDs 20 years ago under his own name and I think that was it.

Looking forward to Hilton Valentine Animals tribute. Great guitar parts great tone.

And welcome to the chat from NH John! Seen a few episodes of the anime maybe I should get back into it

Brian, I like the Philly International idea. And I've been mispronoungicing that Joe Henderson tune for years!

Ha. The command form of the verb recorder. To remember

<--Spanish Major

Ha, came in handy for me just now. My poor Latin experience did not elp.

After graduating college, one of my daughters taught English for a year in Spain.

...her father bragged.

This track is absolutely incredible

Very nice! As you should. I thought about that too. Took a course abroad in Madrid right after graduating from PSU. Summer of 1991

John Wilson, that was Robert Glasper. His own kind of fenius.

Only time I ever got to see that continent . one day i have to get back to Europe

genius

Brian, I went to visit her. But instead of going to Madrid where she had been so many times during that year, we drove south to the tip of portugal and back up. spain, Portugal, it was so much fun.

Olive and lemon country! And guitar country of course. I bought a lovely nylon string classical gtr in Madrid. A deal too. Prob 150 to 200 $ 1991 money. Still right as rain in tune and intonation. Light tan burnt orange color stain. Love it

Nice!

Still try to keep up on my old classcal gtr lesson pieces and learn some new ones. Been working on Vivaldi Lute Concerto in D Rv 93. John Williams (gtr player not Star Wars composer) did a great version recorded in Sevilla, Spain in the Alcazar Palace. Wonderful

Used to air on PBS. No audience. Just John, chamber orchestra on some pieces and the amazing scenery... walls ceilings etc

I gotta pick up my lutee again.

lute

No, just kidding.

Crazy design instrument the lute. don't have one of those yet

Half doz guitars ,2 or 3 mandolins, banjo or 2, dobro, 1 ukelele, a borrowed elec bass, hmmm maybe more

Because of this chat, I am dreaming of Spain and Portugal. I need to go to both countries, post-vaccine. I am envious! 🍊 🇵🇹 🇪🇸

@Brian, you have quite the collection! No lutes yet

We drank our way up and down Portugal. The wine was to die for. AND the PORT!!!!!

Brian D, you are a renaissance man!

@Jerry, did you come across Amontillado port on your travels? I always think of the story by Edgar Allen Poe.

My Sangeet alter-ego really digs Brooklyn Raga Massive. संगीत They're doing some amazing things there. 🛺

I knew I'd see you here dave when I heard this tune start! Will have to look them up now

Dave, thanks for checking in. I am honored. You have an incredible show, everybdy should listen!

@Dave the Obscure, it's like Jerry summoned you!

Many of them have grown up bi-culturally, so they approach both Indian Classical and western jazz with equal fluency.

Hi Christine. My ears are always open.

This is great! Luscious strings

Thank you, Jerry. 🙏🏾 I'm a long time fan of Serenade to a Cuckoo.

They are so good, it is indescribable

Thank you, Dave

Love that combination. And yes, you and Selecta, always locked in! Fridays are really great with the new season

truly massive!

Thanks, Dude, Jimbeaux. Glad there are still devoted radio people. It's how we all grow.

And yes, this music is truly massive.

hi, jerry! wonderful music. thanks much!

This track is really transporting...

Hi Esoterica, thank you so much. You get praise here in Listeners Lounge all the time! You are the best!

Thought their gig at Painted Bride a few years back totally underutilized their massive forces and numbers.

Thank you:). Just made my day. hi, everyone! i feel like i am taking a course (a compelling, fun one!) the I listen to your show

*when

Hey Anthony, thanks for tuning in. I put one of the Hertzberg CDs away in the wrong jacket and have spent 3 weeks looking for it. I will write later.

Esoterica. You started out great and have grown to awesome and incredible. Muscular!

It happens, Jerry.

And Esoterica's chat room? Overwhelming! Messages are posted faster than I can read them.

Hi Jerry and Jazz aficionados: lovely music as always and like u mentioned earlier these are all new and fresh pieces . But since this is a new semester can I introduce a topic for the chat room to think about and discuss over the course of months ?

Hi Mark!

Good night Christopher Plummer . Master actor over many decades. RIP

I just saw that! A shame.

Mark, what were you going to suggest?

Hello DJE! Yeah talk about massive, the sonic bloomers chat is ⚡- and all hears mark mark!

Ears hears, same same

This Tom Tallitsch song is called Mablestates, I'm sure taken from Benny Golson's "Stablemates." I'm wondering if it is the same dhords.

@Mark, what's the topic you wanted us to think about and discuss? I'm curious.

These are all great new releases but what I kinda would like to hear the educated group here tell us how does Jazz attract a new generation of younger listeners and musicians? I remember you touching on the topic in the past - it’s the age old question: Is Jazz Dead ? So that’s my topic for the new Semester:) Professor Jerry will you allow the listeners to think about it ?

The professor is into free speech

Haha just food for thought did u ever teach on this at MLNS ?

I've heard people ponder this issue my whole adult life. I have my thoughts.

It takes me awhile to read a clock.

@Jerry 😄

I think it starts with ensuring that kids have equitable access to music & instruments...more difficult with funding cuts to public music education programs.

JimBeaux, access is certainly a part of it.

That great deep Newcastle accent. Chas & Eric in interviews.

Oh, I thought you were talking about me.

Eric shows the accent just a touch on some songs

Haha!

Jurrys reee-yooom

I was thinking about this very subject, Brian. Burdon had such an accent when speaking, and it reallydisapated.while singing

With me, it's a combination of slurring and South Philadelphia.

He has great projection. Sometimes theatrical. Many times soulful and bluesy.

Take off on Baby Let Me Follow You Down there

Hints of The Shadows on the gtr riffs(last song)

another great accent is a great singer from just across the river from Newcastle. Brian Johnson of ACDC. Thick "Geordie" accent. He was even in a band called Geordie!

Like the Stones, all the Animals early records are straight up blues tunes.

Yup they loved the blues! Love that elec organ tone . Jetty on the Rocks had some great elec organ songs on her New Year's eve show

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood-a song written for Nina Simone.

Loving this animals set Jerry and Brian you should put together a heavy accent singer list, you have a lot from the chats already

I was going to be the lead singer of a soul/jazz band and call it "Wade In the Wooder"

Ha! Woulda loved to hear it Jerry. A while ago during DJ Elliot's show he had an artist with the name Woodard, I swear I heard watered (wondered) he got a real kick out of it

(wondered*) darn auto correct

Ugh again! (Woodered) sorry

Wooder is a Philadelphian's proudest trademark!

i'm back for Jerry's room!

Hi Jerry! Great show you have.

Hi all!

my bro just saw eric burdon in san diego a couple of years ago...still going strong, as far as I know

We're all drinking the wooder in Jerry's Room!

Thank you for listening, Bo! Appreciated.

Sonny Boy the 3rd could do a set on Chevrolet/ Hey Gyp. He probably has!

Esoterica, very cool of your brother. He's still a Bluesman,living in California and wearing floral short sleeve shirts and sunglasses!

My fave of the bunch is Taj Mahal's Chevrolet version

yeah, he was playing at a place called Humphreys, outdoor venue overlooking the bay, lovely

Penned by Donovan. My favorite version: the Soul Survivors, the flip side of Expressway

Esoterica, wouldn't you like to be there right now?

This is the song you sing when you're at the end of your line.

oh yes, jerry!:). i miss the left coast. but i just played in the snow with my dog so feeling the jersey woods in their prettiness

*dogs (moose, 90 pound black lab/golden and dolly sue, 15 pound terrier mix!). and I feel you re: the end of the line song

Haha.

Hmmm.. Chevrolet goes way back before Donovan . But different enough for him to get a credit I guess.

I'll feel better if the Eagles trade Carson Wentz

such a great song

Never gets old this.

Gerry Goffin & Carole King!

Bye, guys! Thanks for a wonderful show.

Two of the greatest.

Wonderful sheee-ay-oh-oooow Jurry!

Great show Jerry, thank you, be safe!

haha...brian! you got the EB accent down pat

Thanks Bo, Brian, Esoterica for joinging and your great comments

Thanks Dude, Jimbeaux, Christine, Mark, dave the Obscure, Anthony, John, Patrick!