The Dizzy Band is short and tall. It is very quiet and very loud. It hums, shouts, rings, reverberates, and whispers. It comes from all over the country, and it converged on New York City--that place of convergences--in March 2005. The Dizzy Band is Cody, Ernie, Jeremy, Nick, and Ryan. At 23-26, as good friends, they share influences in the range of folk and country music, to classic rock, soul, funk, hard bop and the blues. The most stark, and perhaps bizarre commonality is that they each came to the city as acting majors and, for one reason or another, to some degree or other, abandoned their first métiers to create and pursue music. Currently based in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, The Dizzy Band collaborates on the works of its multiple songwriters, elaborates on the varied and vivid ideas, and produces solid, well-crafted songs that are both intelligent and accessible. Driven by ornate rhythms and riffs, and colored in precise, full-bodied chord progressions given by the keys and acoustic guitar, the sound is almost indefinable. Still it somehow lacks the pretense offered by its indie-and art-rock contemporaries. The added delight of seeing them live--the dancing and singing-along--can leave one barely able to walk home straight. Oh yeah, and the Dizzy Band dances too. Though not necessarily well.