Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue is one of my desert island, all-time favorite records. I have the album cover for Sketches of Spain framed on my bedroom wall. I played baritone saxophone in my high school jazz band, and if I could learn any skill with the simple press of a button Matrix -style I would become the next Thelonius Monk.
For me, though, jazz is more than just a style of music. Jazz improvisation has always struck me as an apt metaphor for a life well lived. Lately, I have also been thinking about the strong parallels between jazz and the practice of law. Strange as it may seem, I think that jazz provides a very helpful way to think about both life and litigation.
