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Serenade to a Cuckoo with Jerry Gordon

Jan 6, 2023 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Music

With Jerry Gordon

Serenade to a Cuckoo & Jerry's Room: a two hour jazz show featuring new, modern jazz releases or special jazz features, followed by one hour of non-jazz including pop, r&b, rock, and blues from the forties thru the seventies! You will love it!

1.6.23

Two hours of the best jazz of 2022, followed by one hour of songs with the word "baby" in the title

12:01 PM		Roland Kirk Quartet & Rahsaan Roland Kirk Quartet Serenade to a Cuckoo I Talk with the Spirits Verve 1998
12:05 PM		Sonido Solar & Eddie Palmieri Picadillo Eddie Palmieri Presents: Sonido Solar Trrcollective 2022
12:18 PM		Tyshawn Sorey Ask Me Now I (feat. Greg Osby, Aaron Diehl & Russell Hall) The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Live) [feat. Greg Osby, Aaron Diehl & Russell Hall] 2022
12:34 PM		Houston Person Put Your Head on My Shoulder Reminiscing at Rudy's 2022
12:34 PM		Magnus Lindgren, John Beasley & The SWR Big Band Laura (with Charles McPherson) Bird Lives ACT Music 2021
12:41 PM		Nat Birchall Celestial Harmony The Infinite
12:55 PM		Mike Moreno Invitation Standards from Film Criss Cross Jazz 2022
12:56 PM		Elvin Jones My Funny Valentine Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub Blue Note Records 2022
1:13 PM		Jason Marshall I Could Write A Book New Beginnings Cellar Live 2022
1:13 PM		Amina Figarova Only Peace Liberates Joy AMFI RECORDS 2022
1:20 PM		Charles Lloyd Nachekita's Lament (feat. Julian Lage & Zakir Hussain) Trios: Sacred Thread (feat. Julian Lage & Zakir Hussain) Blue Note 2022
1:29 PM		John Escreet Equipoise Seismic Shift Whirlwind Recordings 2022
1:38 PM		Conrad Herwig Goodbye Pork Pie Hat The Latin Side of Mingus Savant 2022
1:56 PM		Tigran Hamasyan Big Foot (feat. Joshua Redman) StandArt Nonesuch 2022
2:04 PM		Andy & The Bey Sisters Everybody Loves My Baby 'Round Midnight (Rudy Van Gelder Remaster) Prestige 2007
2:05 PM		Aretha Franklin Baby I Love You Aretha's Gold Rhino Atlantic 1969
2:07 PM		Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby Cleanhead's Back in Town Bethlehem Records 2015
2:11 PM		Nina Simone My Baby Just Cares for Me Little Girl Blue (Remastered) Bethlehem Jazz 2013
2:16 PM		Mississippi Fred McDowell My Babe Top 50 Classics - The Very Best of Mississippi Fred McDowell GRR Music 2014
2:25 PM		Taj Mahal Checkin' Up On My Baby Taj Mahal Columbia/Legacy 1967
2:25 PM		Buddy Holly Maybe Baby Not Fade Away: The Complete Studio Recordings And More Geffen 2008
2:28 PM		Steven Bernstein Baby Let Me Hold Your Hand Good Time Music (Community Music, Vol. 2) Royal Potato Family 2022
2:29 PM		Britney Spears ... Baby One More Time ...Baby One More Time Jive 1999
2:35 PM		Billy Boy Arnold Ah'w Baby Blues Lowdown Hit Town 2018
2:40 PM		The Youngbloods Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby The Youngbloods Legacy Recordings 1967
2:42 PM		The Midnighters Annie Had A Baby Work with Me, Annie: The Very Best of Hank Ballard and the Midnighters Big Buzz Productions 2019
2:44 PM		Freddie Scott Are You Lonely for Me Baby Cry to Me - The Best of Freddie Scott Sony Music Media 1998
2:50 PM		The Supremes Baby Love (Single Version) [Mono] Baby Love / Ask Any Girl - Single Universal Music Group International 2009
2:51 PM		The Shirelles Baby It's You The Best of the Shirelles Scepter Records 1984
2:53 PM		Player Baby Come Back Best of Player Player 2014

Chat is archived.

Welcome Everybody!

It's that time again...! Hi Jerry!

Hi Christine, how are you?

Right out of the gate!

WHAT is this?! Starting with the theme song?! Crazy. 🐦 🎶

Hi Brian!

Got to keep you guys guessing!

Mazel tov on the grandchildren!

Krista, so kind of you!

I also saw your "like" on Facebook. Very nice of you!

It was a long time coming for all of us!

Nice!

Hi Lee!

OK Christine, some percussion for you

I wonder why Jerry's Room with be an hour of songs with Baby in the title? 👶 Just kidding; I saw your post. Congratulations, Jerry!

Ha! The whole family is elated! Two in four months.

💯 percussion

mmmm picadillo... lunch time

Here I am again on Friday at noon listening to Serenade...it's a good thing!

Yeah man, thank you!

Psst peeka-dee-yo

Haha, I definitely need Spanish lessons from you. I had to look up the word to see what it was! But thank you

They might not mince words but they do mince some tasty ingredients all over Latin America for the many variations of that dish. I gotta make some Cuban picadillo soon

There were great pics on Google

Love this album by Tyshawn Sorey!

Hi Russ!

Unexpected to hear Sorey's album be so "inside"

I have never been disappointed in the playing of Greg Osby

Hi Jerry, good choice on the Sorey album. I have enjoyed all the songs you played from it in 2022.

Hi Rob! Great to hear! A strong album!

Put yer head on my shoulder

Rob, I hope you enjoy the other songs today as well. I hope everybody likes them!

I'm sure I will

Baby in lyrics here.. foreshadowing

Those silent guitar note lyrics

ha!

This is tremendous. The best!

He is playing every instrument

Thanks again for turning me onto Nat Birchall. Great stuff

This is a British guy who does not seek fame. He's a totally cosmic character.

His music is totally organic

And more minimal, snazzy percussion

One of the best!

The mic(s) on Elvin detail. Good study in restraint

Greetings Jerry and fellow Cuckooites.Haven’t heard Serenade since last year.About time

PJ, how are you? Thanks for joining in and thanks for the article.

gotta love a baritone

On Saint Andres Day a shoutout to Andre Watts .Andre Previn .Andre the Giant .Andre 3000. Andre Iguodala. Andre Lacroix.

Haha, you took up all the Andre's, I can't think of any others

Yeah, Rob, and their numbers as soloists seems to be declining

Got a sneak peek at that BABY playlist. I believe I saw Paul Anka,Pablo Cruise, Mac Davis,DEVO and the Ramones.

I remember when my daughter needed to pick an instrument in middle school. So liked the sax but thought it was too big. I told her she would grow into it. But, it was only an alto

Bass sax the way to go. Keep them grounded to the floor. They won't get far away.

You are so good, Patrick! Except that was the wrong list you saw!

Well theirs 2 Babies so maybe next weeks show.What ever happened to the BABIES?saw them at the TOWE for 94 cents years ago.

hahahaha

I haven't been to 69th St. lately

Take your shopping feet to 69th street....easy street

This one is so cool

Hi Mike, Shoes for Industry! Was the easy street line below a new jingle you wrote for 69th St.?

This is classic!

Sixties radio commercial

Patrick: John Waite for no one. Jon raised a Cain and went on a Journey.

You can’t get to heaven on the Frankfort El but you can get to 69th street

Good one Brian. WYSp or Mmr did run a promotion for that Tower show .

If it was 1977 apparently there is a live lp from that date @ the Tower

94 cents for a concert ticket @Patrick? That's value!

Christine it wouldn’t have been if it was a Billy Joel concert

Truth

Hi Jerry! Good afternoon all. This has been so chill I think the weather is changing again. :)

Ooo this is a nice one

Hi RS! Did it get cold out? I'm gonna check it out

LOLLL Patrick

Psst Jerry. .. Handoff... coming up: eh-kee-PWAH-zz (John Escreet)

Pork Pie Hat swinging so

Not so much cold, but back to seasonal. But if I gotta chill this is the way to do it. Nice show as always Jerry. :)

Brian, the song has been around forever and I never heard it pronounced that way! You know this word?

Thanks, RS, yes it got nippy out there!

Nah you can do eck-i-poyz .. just kidding

This music sounds like WPRB on a Thursday circa 11am 2018

ala Rico Calamari

Henry Squids! The alternate Latin music dj!

Or Ricky Squids if you will...

I gotta get that Herwig Latin Mingus lp. Thanks for playing that

You scared me, I was doing heavy research

🎹 Tigran Hamasyan's album ended up on a lot of people's best of 2022 lists, I bet.

Joshua Redman

He sounds real good on this one

This track is great!

Hey Jerry I made the 2022 list of 5 PRB DJS….For most annoying Spinitroner.

I remember buying one of Joshua Redman's first albums

I was ready to make a request but this program is Jerry’s Baby.

Patrick, I had heard you won that poll!

Joking!

Last time I won a Pole they gave me Greg Luzinski

Two Grandchildren! Mazel Tov!

Thanks Rob, 4 months apart!

Miss. FRED!

Classic. 💜 Ms. Simone

Sorry Jerry but a Baby show with no Paul Anka is like a reggae show with no Bob Marley

Checking up.. TAJ!

Which song for Part II?

The Great Jesse Ed Davis on lead guitar

Just kidding Jerry. However I always considered the Ramones the KKK took my Baby away to be a true romantic classic.

OMG

Has baby in the title!

Heh....right?

True, but...

He's not wrong

Richard Thompson version of the Britney song is fun

I have to look that up; thanks Brian.

Had to get online to see what spurred the playing of this one!

Congrats Jerry!

I enjoyed when Homer Simpson called the lost baby hotline and they put him on hold ….while Pablo Cruise Baby Come Back played.

Thank you, DSM! Appreciated! All musical tastes invited to celebrate!

Always a tasty soup of mixed ingredients cookin' in Jerry's Room!

I thought for sure we would hear good time baby by the five sounds

Love that song "Soul Mok"

😎🤘

Player!.....where's my leisure suit...

Tasty shoop shoop 🍲 🎶

It has moth holes in it!

Indeed!

What a way to start off 2023...thanks, Jerry. Congratulations! 👶🏽

A rip off Hall and Oates...in my opinion of course

Thank you, Christine!

Congrats Jerry! Fun show

Thank you, Jerry!

ha!

Definitely cribbing Hall & Oates, they were.

Thanks everybody!