All about Jazz!!
This Tuesday I took a trip to downtown New Brunswick to the Tavern on George to listen to a fine musical group. Every Tuesday and Thursday you can go to experience a live jazz show by the New Brunswick jazz project. You can even go Friday and Saturday for live acoustics.
The experience I had listening to this jazz group was a bit much for me. I am not typically a jazz person and listening to very loud jazz while eating was a lot, but the music itself was decent.
When I think about music and eating I think about lower music so I can still hear the person next to me but here I couldn’t even hear myself think. But besides it being a restaurant the experience of hearing all the different sounds the instruments made. Along with how much emotion was displayed by the musicians was interesting . My favorite part of the live show was seeing how involved and expressive the musicians were while playing and that’s something I believe one could only feel live.
The trumpet and trombone were my favorites because they really set the frame of the whole thing along with the saxophone. The drums seemed to hold everything together while the guitar set a nice touch. The piano seemed to be more of a filler and the whole thing is very well put together. As someone who has never experienced a jazz show it was nice to experience but I think it would have to be one and done for me. I do give a lot of respect to the musicians because in every song they shine light on each instrument a little bit and they did a good job of putting their emotion into it. They really connected with the crowd.
The Tavern itself was very cool. I made a reservation and they had a cool little reserved piece on the table. I went with my boyfriend and we got “The Great Moz” which was a giant mozzarella stick that was “the size of the NJ turnpike”. It was delicious. The service seemed nice, you could not get much conversation due to the noise. I felt a bit rude just being on my phone the whole time, even my boyfriend joked and said “so are you really going to be on your phone and not enjoy the music”. I was only using my phone to take notes. The crowd seemed to be all jazz lovers and it was cool seeing how many people enjoyed the performance.
I will give my respect to the musicians because if I were someone who really enjoys jazz I would have appreciated it more. Although I walked out with a bit of a headache due to the loudness, it was a nice experience and maybe I would give jazz another chance. I’m also very curious about what acoustic music they play on Friday and Saturday. Maybe I will go back to give them a chance.