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Serenade to a Cuckoo

Dec 16, 2022 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Jerry Gordon

Two hours of new modern jazz releases or jazz topics, followed by one hour of non-jazz music--blues, rock, pop, soul, r&b--from the forties to the 80s.

12.16.22

An hour of new jazz releases, an hour interview with the great percussionist Ian Dogole, an hour of Mike Bloomfield!

12:04 PM		The Klezmer Conservatory Band Oy Chanukah, Oy Chanukah! Oy Chanukah! New Rounder 1987
12:08 PM		Don Byron Dreidel Song Plays the Music of Mickey Katz Nonesuch 2005
12:10 PM		Steven Bernstein Chusen Kalah Mazel Tov Diaspora Soul Tzadik 1999
12:18 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:18 PM		Gregory Tardy The Intelligent Design Sufficient Grace Wj3 Records 2022
12:45 PM		The Horace Silver Quintet Song For My Father Live New York Revisited
12:47 PM		Marc Copland Quartet Let's Cool One Someday 2022
12:55 PM		Kari Kirkland I Can't Help It I Can't Help It - Single Slea Head Records 2022
1:20 PM		Ian Dogole Sun Song Quinta Essentia 2022
1:28 PM		Ian Dogole Nubian Dreams (For Hamza El Din) Quinta Essentia 2022
1:38 PM		Ian Dogole Reflections by the Bay (Window) [For Bill Douglass] Quinta Essentia 2022
1:48 PM		Ian Dogole The Gathering Quinta Essentia 2022
2:03 PM		The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Shake Your Money Maker The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Elektra Asylum 1965
2:18 PM		The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Blues with a Feeling The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Elektra Asylum 1965
2:19 PM		The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Mary, Mary East-West Elektra Asylum 1966
2:19 PM		The Paul Butterfield Blues Band East West East-West Elektra Asylum 1966
2:45 PM		The Electric Flag Texas A Long Time Comin' Columbia 1968
2:46 PM		The Electric Flag Killing Floor A Long Time Comin' Columbia 1968
2:49 PM		Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper & Stephen Stills Stop Super Session Columbia 1968
2:49 PM		Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield & Stephen Stills Albert's Shuffle Super Session (Bonus Track Version) Columbia/Legacy 1968
3:04 PM		Sam Lay's Blues Band Maggie's Farm Sam Lay In Bluesland

Chat is archived.

Hello and welcome everybody!

Hey Jerry...it's that time again!

Hi Christine, good to see you there!

Lotus...

Brian, wouldn't knowif you watched or not!

1st season was great. That Aussie actor funny. Great music in that season too

Greetings to Jerry and his Gordainaires.Happy Hanukkah to all. We need Festival of Lights to curb all this darkness

I didn't know you had time for such stuff. For me, 1st season great, 2nd season greater!

Hi Patrick, thank you! So good to see you. This is why we love music, it chases our dark away and hopefully some of the world's

Still watched 2nd but.. not as interesting for me. Hope next is better

Patrick, this music is medicine for me!

Happy upcoming Hanukkah! 🕎

...as you know.

Christine, thank you very much!

I remember when the man with three names would always punctuate his program with Hanukkah in Santa Monica this time of year.Not a bad idea to go there today

Yes, I was thinking about that last night, Patrick. Absolutely

He loved that song, it uplifted him

This music so good I want to convert but Old Saint Mary’s Church refused to trade me.

They needed you to be a designated shtick-er

The one synagogue accepted me but they said I had to drop the Priest A rabbi and a…jokes

Forget it!

Too good Jerry. :) Have a Happy Chanukah next week!

Thank you, RS! I will be seeing my new grandchild and slipping him some "gelt"! Thanks for your good wishes.

Backatcha!

Looking forward to todays third hour featuring the Paul Lynde blues band.

Perfect! As it should be.

Happy Friday, Jerry!

Hey GBoss, same to y ou!

Early bird today

Thanks for being here!

Early theme song today! 🐦 🎶

Yeah

Tom Lehrer songs are always a good addition to any playlist ⭐️

Caused by the "special programming" in hour 2

Right on, Christine

To think that jazz this beautiful will sell so little in 2022, it's a shame

Unfortunately the Intelligent Design does not apply to mainstream American music tastes.

I actually had an intelligent design theme going on but abandoned it

The value of art should never be tied to how profitable it can be.

Happy 82 nd birthday to WPRB.I remember that first year distinctly.Jerry had an in studio interview with Artie Shaw

Christine, Henry Miller had some great things to say about art that I can't repeat hear, but ties in with what you said

Haaaaa, Patrick!

Mickey Katz -> Joel Grey ->Jennifer Grey. 3 generations

Excellent! I was hoping you would play this "new"Horace

Right on, Brian! You know all the important stuff!

Mentioned before but the late Dan Hicks did a nice vocal version of this on one of his last lps

I bet it's a killer!

Kari Kirkland 💜

Christine, isn't she fantastic?

Shout out to Third Street Jazz. Where I would be today circa 1980 spending half my paycheck

She truly is.

Thank you, Patrick, you didn't need the money anyway

I'd be in the basement

Hey Mike, thank you for your service

I was in front the other day I told 2 Young people there used to be a great record store at this site. One asked What’s a record? The other asked What’s a store?

Ha! I can believe that

Richie Cole pride of Trenton NJ

What's a young people?

Saw Ritchie at John and Peters in New Hope back in the day...great

I am going to fundraiser for a Documentary film called The Friends of Jerry Gordon

Ritchie was great. Only got to see him a few times.

It's a short video, patrick, about 8 minutes long

Is John and Peters still a thing? I don’t get out much. I know they turned Havana Bar into a Covers Band mecca

John Larson sold it a few years ago....still live music

Patrick, I don't know, I haven't bee there since before covid when I saw Will Constantine's band

Not true not true You could do 8 minutes just reenacting Ian Drury robbing your store!!!

We should have known Mike would be informed on the subject

Haha, he's dead and I still haven't forgiven that putz!

Will played J&P?....wow!

attempted robbery.

Yes, a number of times, Mike

My goal in life is to play timbales in Will Constantine’s band

Will is a 100% self-taught musician

Clarinet if I recall

Will is like my buddy Ian here, plays a million percussion instruments (and horns)

This interview with Ian is really interesting.

I'm glad you think so, Christine. Really. A great guy with a lot of knowledge

Will C played monthly at John and Peter's in the 90s and 00s. My band(s) were playing monthly same era. He had a bunch of instruments yes! And he sat in with other bands too

I wish I had seen your band!

One of my old band mates is co owner of John and Peter's now

He should hire you as a consultant

But i have not been there in a while. The late nights at the bar days are over. We just called that place "the bar". No confusion as it was the only one we went to in town . After practice hang always. Sometimes practice was at the bar! They'd call us if a band cancelled on a weeknight sometimes

Good outdoor side bar spot too . Great burgers. Prime people watching spot

I don't think I've been in there since Ricky passed

Ricky was great! Really supportive during the one band's wild days. He helped us pull off some crazy shows! Miss him

Loved Ricky....oh....the stories....

Hamza El Din - The Water Wheel, one of the very early Nonesuch Releases

Last saw him 6-7 years ago at the Clarion hotel pool we hang out at in summer. Glad i got to run into him again before he passed

Sounds like an incredible person

Yeah many a late night where the staff locked the doors and dimmed the lights and kept the (free) bar open. Shhhh... especially during the Ricky era

A wild card heh

I'm going to have to check out Quinta Essentia.

Good afternoon Jerry! That was a treat, great stuff thank you for bringing it.

Mike B was doing "soundtrack" or at least background music for adult films towards the end there. Hey... it's a gig

Thank you, Ambrose. Not only does Ian make great music, but he is a wealth of interesting information.

Today's show is hitting on all cylinders!

https://www.kimmelculturalcampus.org/events-and-tickets/202223/free/plaza-events/nightlife/sun-ra-arkestra-led-by-marshall-allen/

Thank you, Christine

RIP Nez

This is just so other worldly Bloomfield. Great tack

track

Yes, from a "blues band"!

I think Jon is doing his annual Hanukkah show sometime soon as well... not sure

I believe Jon's All Hanukkah show will be this coming Wednesday 12/21.

Next Wednesday, I think

Thanks for the link, Christine!

Al Kooper has some good info on these sessions in his book with the very long title ..

I have that bood somewere and must find it

book

There are 2 diff versions of Al's book. 1st went out of print i think. Then re-released w slightly diff title in late 90s

I wonder how they differ

Thank you, Jerry for a triple threat program: new jazz, Ian Dogole's spiritual jazz percussion, and the P.B.B.B. 💯

Thank you for the show, Jerry!

Thank you, Christine, have a great weekend!

GBoss, thanks for hanging in, have a great weekend. I bet your Dad listened to a lot of Bloomfield!

Have a great weekend, everybody!

Thanks for an always interesting and educational show Jerry, have a great weekend!

Thanks so much, Ambrose, have a good one!

Hi Christine, thanks, same to you, bye!

Great show Jerry!

Thank you, Brian!

That mean slide wow!

I'm playing Bloomfield and Dylan now but you guys can't hear it. Live at Newport, quite psychedelic