Determined Leafs burn Caps
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
The plan was to suffocate Alex Ovechkin.
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Cox: Determined Leafs burn Capitals
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
The plan was to suffocate Alex Ovechkin. Literally, apparently. With Francois Beauchemin requesting a chance to play against the Washington star as often as possible, and with Ovechkin struggling to catch his breath in the heavy air of the ACC, the Maple Leafs were able to squeak out their fourth triumph of the season by a 2-1 shootout score.
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Review: Sheila Jordan
LondonJazz (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Review: Sheila Jordan 81st birthday gig (Bull's Head, London Jazz Festival, November 18th 2009, review by Georgia Mancio) "It’s quite something to stand up and convey a song. It looks easy…," mused a member of the audience at the busy Bull’s Head on Wednesday night. "...but it’s difficult to convey overly emotive songs, and it’s difficult to convey jokey...
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Happy birthday Don Cherry, November 18, 1936...
Woody Haut's Blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Happy birthday Don Cherry, November 18, 1936 – October 19, 1995, Wherever you are. Here he is with Sonny Rollins Then, with James Blood Ulmer and Rashied Ali
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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Don Cherry
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Don Cherry's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Don CherryDon Cherry was born in Oklahoma City, OK in 1936 and raised in Los Angeles, where he first began to play the trumpet and later piano. According to Cherry, his upbringing had everything to do with his interest in music: "Yeah... more...
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European Jazz Jamboree 2009
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
European Jazz Jamboree Berlin, Germany September 18-24, 2009 20 years after the Berlin Wall came down, the global appreciation of Germany's jazz is arguably finally getting its due, with no small help from the European Jazz Jamboree (EJJ). In its sophomore year, EJJ has quickly garnered attention throughout Europe, and now the States, too, is (and/or should be) taking notice. Founded and run by entrepreneur...
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Albert Ayler - Vibrations (Freedom, 1964)
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Tenor saxophonist Albert Ayler performed his greatest music in a state of spiritual ecstasy. Like fellow seekers John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, he looked to use music as a Buddhist might use meditation or a Baptist might speak in tongues: to make contact with something greater than himself. Recorded in Copenhagen on September 14th, 1964, this may be the finest group Ayler ever led. Featuring the...
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Leafs Deserved a Better Fate!
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
I, for one, am tired of hearing it. With a tired Calgary team, they couldn’t take advantage of it. Why? Their team game still isn’t anywhere close to being there. Their polar opposite special teams definitely didn’t help. The Leafs came into the game with the 3rd ranked powerplay and it’s the first time I [...]
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National Post editorial board: Common sense vs. pansy-phobia
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
National Hockey League managers gathered this week to agonize once again over proposed changes aimed at preventing injuries. The issue this time is blind-side hits to the head. These are just what they sound like: One players spots another who isn’t paying attention, and delivers a shoulder to the noggin before the victim even sees him coming. The reason for concern is obvious. While players...
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If I could do just one thing it would be
To Your Screen From My Head (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
As another day is over and I'm sitting back thinking and out of the blue started thinking about what would I do If I had the oppertunity to do just 1 thing, anything from impossable to miracle what 1 thing would I do? WOW thats a tough one, well not realy I can come up with a million things such as win a lottery, go shy diving, go to the playboy mansion (well hey I am only human after all), visit some...
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Backchecking With ... Cal Clutterbuck
The FanHouse - Arkansas Football (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
by Bruce Ciskie Filed under: Wild , Western We get to know NHL players with five quick questions . Today's subject: Cal Clutterbuck , who set an NHL record for hits last season while irritating Don Cherry along the way. Backchecking With ... Cal Clutterbuck originally appeared on Fanhouse NHL Blog on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink | Email this | Linking...
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Remembrance Day
Pension Plan Puppets (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Don and Ron View full size photo » Being an American who follows the Leafs from his home in New England I get an interesting look into the subtle cultural differences between the Northeast and Canada. To be honest there's less of a difference between being in Massachusetts and Ontario than there is between Massachusetts and Arizona, but because Canada is an entirely different country there's...
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Tuesday, 17 November, 2009
East Side Jazz Club (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
8.30 - 11.00pm £5 on the door Dick Pearce (trumpet & flugel) Steve Melling (piano) Geoff Gascoyne (bass) Clive Fenner (drums) "More than any other British jazz trumpeter, Pearce probably deserves the mantle of heir to Jimmy Deuchar, offering a style that contains a fractured lyricism reminiscent of his forebear. Pearce began his career as a military band musician and subsequently emerged...
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SCR jukebox: Just exactly what the facts is
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I don't normally do this sort of thing, as it's always struck me as too-easy blog fodder, but I have to admit that my iPod shuffle put together a particularly nice playlist at the gym this a.m. 1: "Rub 'Til...
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Debate on hockey violence, session 2,486
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
With the possible exception of the annual angst over the state of the Maple Leafs, few sporting subjects get more televised air time in this country than the issue of hockey violence.