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The CBC is looking for a new theme song for its iconic Hockey Night in Canada broadcast, after being outbid by rival CTV for the rights to the decades-old theme that every Canadian knows as well as the national anthem. After putting out a call for new themes, the CBC has selected five finalists, orchestrated them, and invited the public to vote on the winner....
CHANGE OF THE CENTURY is a hell of an album. It was recorded in 1959, but sounds as fresh and interesting today as it did then. Ornette Coleman's great quartet, with Billy Higgins , Charlie Haden and Don Cherry , are at the height of their powers. In the original liner notes Ornette says, "I don't tell the members of my group what to do. I want them to play what they hear in the piece for themselves."...
from Larry Brooks of the NY Post, This NHL exploration of the global market is as welcome as it is necessary. This is not a time for this league to retreat into its own North American borders, regardless of what the habitually ignorant Don Cherry might have to say on the subject. It cannot afford to. But the league needs to develop a sound plan here, and it needs to do so in conjunction with not only...
THIS was March 17, when the Red Sox were in Tampa to play the Yankees in an exhibition game. It was also one day before the defending world champions were scheduled to depart for Japan to open their season in Tokyo against the A's. "One thing we...
You want to bug Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria? Ask him a cute question about his semi-namesake, "Desperate Housewife" Eva Longoria. Like Yahoo! Sports did recently. "We're not going to go through the whole interview talking about this, are we?" said Longoria (Evan, that is).
*Various Artists - 'Le Tour du Monde, Volume 5' * (2xLP, Musique du Monde, France - 1971) [92:00 total] Image: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3054/2904718918_d852443850.jpg?v=1223121870 Image: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2904718880_d93b7e537f_m.jpg Image:...
Sean Avery is not a man who likes to make waves ...: But he does think that Don Cherry doesn't know jack about hockey. Also, he hates maple syrup and thinks Mounties look stupid in those hats....
Sean Avery is back in the news and he hasn’t even suited up for a regular season game yet, Avery appeared on the CBC’s “The Hour“, the nightly talk show with George Stroumboulopoulos and quickly reignited his feud with Don Cherry and provided more than enough food for the hockey world to chew on in anticipation of the start of the season. As he gets set to provide his services to the Dallas Stars for...
For a period of time beginning in the late 1950s, trumpeter Don Cherry was one of the most influential jazz artists around — but he wasn’t the only guy with that name making his mark in the music world. We’re here to talk about the other Don Cherry. Pop vocalist Don Cherry came out of Texas [...]
North America’s 6th or 7th most popular professional sports league held a preseason conference call yesterday, with a succession of HNIC, Versus, NBC and CBC talking heads fielding questions from the print and online media. Yahoo Sports’ Greg Wyshysnki was a participant, and recounts Don Cherry’s thoughts on the notion of the NHL expanding into [...]
Sean Avery slagging Don Cherry on The Hour is a headline-grabber, no doubt. Please don't ignore that he actually stuck some pins in another Canadian sacred cow — major junior hockey."Avery, who is from Pickering, Ont., and played in the Ontario Hockey League, said a junior hockey player's focus on the game to the exclusion of everything else is 'terrible.' “ 'I didn't go to school,' he said. 'I
from William Houston of the Globe and Mail, NHL tough guy Sean Avery reopened his feud with Don Cherry this week by stating the CBC commentator knows next to nothing about hockey. “He’s a stable as far as Canadian hockey goes,” Avery said during interview on the CBC’s The Hour. “And I grew up watching Coach’s Corner, and he serves a purpose. “But he really does not know shit about hockey. “He knows,...
Swedish musician Bengt "Frippe" Nordström intersected with many of the American free jazz artists on their travels through his country. He was blown off the trad jazz course by Ornette Coleman's music, sitting front row for the concert that was...
My last entry was in Switzerland and a lot has happened since then. My last two days in Switzerland I spent down by Lake Geneva first in Evian yes the same town where the water is from which is over the french border then in Lausanne. They were both interesting lakeside towns and I wandered around and had lunch etc. I drove back to the airport in Geneva last Friday then flew back to Ea
