Three-Fifteen: 10.4

1) Essential Jazz - Wayne Shorter

Speak No Evil

I've been engaged in self-study of classical guitar for four years, and am now branching out into jazz theory. To improvise well, you must be able to play what you hear inside. So a lot of listening is involved in developing chops. :)
There are two cuts from Shorter's "SNE" that just blow me away; the very first word that popped into my mind on hearing "Dance Cadaverous" was "super-cool". And here's an excellent explanation why:

"Wayne Shorter's compositions helped define a new jazz style in the mid-'60s, merging some of the concentrated muscular force of hard bop with surprising intervals and often spacious melodies suspended over the beat. The result was a new kind of 'cool,' a mixture of restraint and freedom that created a striking contrast between Shorter's airy themes and his taut tenor solos and which invited creative play among the soloists and rhythm section."
- Stuart Broomer

Check out "Dance Cadaverous" and "Wild Flower" at Amazon

Blue Note page

2) Antiwar Sermon Brings IRS Warning

Jeralyn Merritt: How the FBI Spies on You and Me

Enlisting Cellphone Signals to Fight Road Gridlock

"This enables the government to have a much easier time of knowing what private people are up to without any sort of process or consent..."

3) Study Sees Growing Dependence on Foreigners to Fill US Professions

"The United States may be neglecting the interests of the native born, particularly minorities, in its increased reliance on foreign scientific and technical talent..."

Infux of Indian Doctors