Orjazzmic
Posted by Erica on October 1st, 2007Intrigued by the title? Yep, me too.
I was hanging out with some friends and after our small group meeting, one of them invited me to go to Rico’s, the local pub, to listen to a group called Orjazzmic. Of course I was all in, how could I not be? It’s music, hello.
We arrived and settled ourselves in comfortable chairs, exchanging conversations about books, the music and life in general. (Yes, it’s one of those pubs…the kind where people talk about the finer things of life…it even has real-live books there.) In the midst of all this conversation, I just sat and listened. The people around me probably thought I was in tune with their conversation but really, I was in tune with the music I was hearing.
Orjazzmic is an eight-piece jazz group with guitar, bass, piano, tenor and alto sax, drums and vocals grouping together to form a melodious sound. Mostly, the group was instrumental…the music? Great. It was the perfect backdrop for the intellectual conversations I was supposed to be paying attention to. And for any person in the establishment such as myself, the music was the centerpiece, not the background.
There’s just something about jazz and I don’t know quite how to explain it. It’s more than music. It’s something that speaks to your soul. It is so full of feeling and emotion. Orjazzmic captures that with its music. Vocals weren’t present in every song and I liked that. Sometimes, you just need to experience the music without any words interrupting the purity of the music.
The group has been together for about five years now and is centered in Pullman, Wash., playing a couple times a month. It’s a talented group, the solos highlighting each musician are excellent and, while on breaks, they mingle with the crowd. I might have to whip out the khakis, slip on the spectacles, don a sweater and become a groupie.