Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer who played jazz music. As a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and subsequently its lead composer, Shorter rose to fame in the late 1950s. He first played in Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet in the 1960s before co-founding Weather Report, a jazz fusion outfit. He led a band that made almost 20 records.
His music has received recognition from all around the world as well as appreciation from critics and has several pieces that have evolved into jazz standards. Read More...
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Many centuries ago, chroniclers conjured what was in antiquity called Ethiopia as a realm at the heart of global trade. The treasures of Rome and India all flowed through its ports along the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea. Read More...
The progressive catechism teaches that there is “too much money” in politics. A codicil to this tenet, written in fine print, is that the term “money” does not apply to money from George Soros, government employees unions, private-sector unions, trial lawyers, Democratic-oriented private-equity firms and white-shoe law firms, Silicon Valley executives or entertainment celebrities.
The catechism does not include the truism that the way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in the allocation of money and of opportunities for making it. Read More...