[Dixielandjazz] The "Legal" Orchestra

[Beth Schweitzer]

Interesting article Steve.

It reminds me of that great OKOM band from Japan, King Cresol Jazz Band.
I was told that it consists entirely of doctors working at the hospital
run by the band leader, himself a surgeon. The story I got was that if
someone applied to work at the hospital he or she had a much better
chance of getting in if their resume included the ability to play jazz.
I don't know how much of that is actual fact, but I have one of their
CDs and it's excellent.

All the best,
Beth


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] The "Legal" Orchestra
From: Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, January 02, 2010 9:00 am


Who said Lawyers have no soul?

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
http://www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband

January 1, 2010 - Associated Press - NY Times Article
To Get to This Orchestra? Law Practice, Law Practice


LOS ANGELES (AP) — If a defense lawyer, a prosecutor and a judge 
walked into a concert hall, what would be the first thing they would do?

“Spend a half-hour arguing legal motions,” David Waller, a longtime 
Los Angeles lawyer, said one of his colleagues told him on learning of 
his plans to tote his cello to a rehearsal of the fledgling Los 
Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic Orchestra. That night, in the fall, 
players had just two hours to run through Brahms’s Hungarian Dance No.

5, Grieg’s “Triumphal March” and a rousing John Philip Sousa
number, 
followed by another couple of classical and pops pieces...