Scooter Chronicles

Yzerman’s #19 to the “Rafters”
Saw this ARTICLE on the Detroit Free Press web site. It essentially says that Team Canada is going to “unofficially retire” #19 in honor of Steve Yzerman. How cool is this?! This is the first time I have ever heard of something like this with the national teams, though one would assume that #99 is retired for Gretzky as it is league wide in the NHL.

It was always a nice tribute by Joe Sakic, another totally classy player and future Hall of Famer like Yzerman, to always wear #91 for Team Canada whether Yzerman was on the team or not out of respect for...

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Julian “Cannonball” Adderley - “Somethin’ Else”

Tracks:

1. Autumn Leaves
2. Love for Sale
3. Somethin’ Else
4. One for Daddy-O
5. Dancing in the Dark
6. Alison’s Uncle

Since getting into jazz, and even before, I knew or at least heard of Cannonball Adderley. But as the years have gone by I have not become a huge fan of his. This album however, which I stumbled across when a member of the BMG Jazz CD Club, has become a favorite. The reason I picked it up was because of Miles Davis (trumpet) and Art Blakey (drums) lending their...

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