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Bitches Brew Creating and performing great music and delivering persuasive trial performance can look effortless, but they demand ceaseless practice, passion, inspiration and focus. This is a reason that music deeply inspires my trial law practice. Moreover, having played music onstage from 1972 through 1982, I became comfortable more quickly on the courtroom stage, while still cognizant of the stagefright challenging so many of my clients and their witnesses.  I learned music through trumpet playing. Although Dizzy Gillespie remains for me the great master trumpeter who was the next bridge after Roy Eldridge from Louis Armstrong, Woody Shaw was more accessible to me, in part by being closer in age, and also through having taken the time to strike up a conversation with me before he started a 1983 performance on a jazzboat in Boston Harbor, and then having talked further with me after the first set...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).