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"Take care of the music." Take care of the persuasive practice.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Yow! I knew Bill Evans was a great musician, but did not realize until recently finding Universal Mind of Bill Evans (taped in 1966) on YouTube how fascinating he was about the creative and self teaching process (see exerprts here, here, and here).  I experienced a great performance by Evans in 1978 at the outdoors Nice jazz festival. At a later point, possibly on another day, he was looking very low-key in purple lenses behind one of the stages just a few feet from me.  As with the seeds of being a great trial lawyer -- and perhaps being great in anything else involving imagination and creative presentation -- Evans described how he found the way to earn a living playing jazz: "Ultimately I came to the conclusion that all I must do is take care of the music, even if I do it in a closet, and if I really do that, someone is going to come and open the door to the closet and say 'Hey, we're looking for you...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 16, 2010 (boomark / email).