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"I am a musician because I don't know how not to be one. " --great unk

Current:: Playing jazz in trio (named Six String Jazz) with Ned Ramage, guitar,

Dan Wulfers, drums, Hugh Bramhall, congas, Daniel Gaynor, guitar, and a host of others who sit in.

Gig: Cafe Coco, Nashville TN April 5th, 2K9 <spedr.com/1efj1> click link for details

Glenn Martin sitting in on trombone.

<SET LIST> click to see current set list

<Music Samples> click to listen

Recent gigs:

New Year's Eve: Union Station Hotel

SSJ- In The Wee Small Hours Of The Morning.mp3

Click above :Short version of "In The Wee Small Hours" that we played at Union Station New Year's Eve

Jazz At Sherlock's

Photo by Eden Ramage

Ned Ramage, guitar, Robert Wolf, drums, Glenn Martin, trombone, Wayne Renardson (hidden), acoustic bass, Wayne Ray, sax, and Sam Frazee, gut string guiitar. Sitting in: John Loveccio, tenor sax and clarinet.

Sherlock's Set List

Pickup gigs:

November 2007: Private: Dennis Burnside (p) Trio with Harry Wilkinson (d)

July 2008: Gilda's Place: Stuart Naylor, trumpet, Larry Seeman, guitar, Bill Cherry, piano, Ralph Henely, drums.

September 2008: Middle TN Medical Center: with: Jack Strotman, trumpet, Ed Grooms, sax, Bob Chandler, sax, Dan Wulfers, drums, Glenn Martin, piano/trombone

October 19, 2008:Glenn Martin and the Arts Alliance Combo featuring Glenn Martin on piano/trombone, Wayne Renardson, bass and Dan Wulfers on drums. Jazz for Encore Theater Phantom Ball.

April11, 2K9: private party. Glenn Martin, piano, Harry Wilkinson,. drums, Wayne Renardson, bass

June 8-11, 2K9: Cumberland University Glenn Martin Jazz Program

June 13, 2K9: Idapalooza Festival with Suzahn Fiering, guitar/vocals, Larry Murov, drums, Wayne Renardson, bass

October 31, 2K9: Jazz at Scientology Celebrity Center with Daniel Gaynor, (g), Mel Nelson piano,

http://www.melnelsonmusic.com/ , Danny Wulfers, (d), Wayne Renardson, (b)

Novermber 6, 2K9: Green Hills Piano: http://spedr.com/4oc24

Danny Wulfers, drums, Hugh Bramhall, congas, Ned Ramage, guitar, Daniel Gaynor, guitar, Ryan Murphy, guitar, Sam Frazee, guitar, Wayne Renardson, acoustic bass, Stuart Naylor,trumpet, Mel Nelson, piano and bass, Nels Noseworthy, baritone sax, Alan Archer, piano, Robert Wolf, drums & video

November 13, 2K9: Making Merry In Berry Hill: Stuart Naylor, trumpet, Ralph Henley, drums, Bill Cherry, piano

Wayne Renardson, acoustic bass

November 29, 2009: Green Hills Piano http://is.gd/4Xky5

Robert Wolf, drums, Ryan Murphy, guitar, Bill Cherry, piano, Ned Ramage, guitar, Mel Nelson, piano, Nels Noseworthy, baritone sax, Wayne Renardson, acoustic bass. and an unknown lady pianist who played some Gershwin and Cole Porter tunes.

Jazz Is the Sound of God Laughing.

---Colleen Shaddox.

I am a musician living in Nashville since 1972. I have been a professional drummer,

An historical essay 'Rock 'N Roll Comes to Polk County' on Dizzy Rambler site <Dizzy Rambler Online Magazine>

It has become trite but Hunter still said it better than anyone before or since:

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway

where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.

- Hunter S. Thompson

an acoustric guitar player

Playing 1959 Martin D-18 guitar with Richland Creek Band at The Old Time Pickin' Parlor downtown Nashville. The musicians are: Wayne Renardson (g), Sandy Garwood (voc), Julie Mavity-Hudson (b), Rafe Hyatt (d), Susan Blair (mando), and Terry Blair (g)

Playing at Tootsie's with Richland Creek Band & Sandy Garwood

Susan Blair, mando, Julie Mavity-Hudson, upright bass, Wayne Renardson, acoustic guitar, Sandy Garwood, writer and vocals, Terry Blair, acoustic guitar, vocals.

Richland Creek Band- If I Were You.mp3

[http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/garwood>|Sandy Garwood's Music ]Sandy's Web page

and my current preference, bass, since 1998 when I began studying with Denny Bixby

<http://www.dennybixby.com/>.

Bass should be more about woofin'...less about tweetin'.

Denny has since moved to Portland, OR where he travels to gigs with Rodney Crowell, Susy Boggus, and a host of other musicians in addition to writing and performing his own jazz compositions.

I spent time circa 1995 with Nashville's "Fish Heads And Rice" when Bass Player magazine published a piece I wrote about their singer and bassist, David James:

http://www.stxjames.com/bassplayer.htm

Talking about jazz is like dancing about architecture

--attributed to Monk and Frank Zappa

For a great overview of how a jazz band really works, check this by John Winkler: click How Jazz Bands Work

"The music plays the band... - Grateful Dead"

In 2002-03 I played jazz standards (Bill Evans, Monk, Gary Burton, Miles, Mingus, the usual suspects) in a quartet with Phillips Adams, piano, Dan Montgomery,vibes, and Peter Gunn, drums, at Woody's Smoke's 'N Brews, near Cool Springs.

SET LIST (WOODY'S) click to see tunes

“Falling in love with jazz is like falling in love with a person, except with jazz you never get over it.”

--------Beegie Adair

When that gig ended I began playing with trombonist and keyboardist Glenn Martin's quartet:

<http://www.softek.net/glenn.martin/>,

guitarist Kenny Gill

and drummer Hugh Bramhall in a jazz quartet at Painturo's in Lebanon. The gig lasted about a year when the owner declined to pay ASCAP/BMI for his live music. The group played a number of private gigs including the Granville Jazz Festival, where drummer Harry Wilkinson worked with the group.

Playing jazz at an outdoor gig in Lebanon with Glenn Martin, Kenny Gill, and Harry Wilkinson one very hot day. The bass is a G&L 2000.

The first Granville Jazz Fest on the Cumberland River. With the Glenn Martin jazz band are Hugh Bramhall, "the Geezer drummer",Wayne Renardson,bass,Valerie Martin,sax, and a student at Tennessee Tech on trumpet. Glenn is to the left playing keyboard and trombone, tho not simultaneously. An incredibly beautiful day on the river with lots of good music. The following year Harry Wilkinson played drums.

Granville Jazzfest 2005 Wayne Renardson, bass, Harry Wilkinson, drums, Kenny Gill, guitar, and Glenn Martin, trombone.

Harry continues to teach at Fork's Drum Closet in Nashville and play jazz with local musicians.

Kenny teaches at Superior Music while currently Glenn teaches jazz at Cumberland University.

MP3 of Glenn Martin (p), Kenny Gill (g) Harry WIlkinson (d) Wayne Renardsion (b) playing Cole Porter's "What Is This Thng Called Love" live at the Watertown Railroad Station. April 2005

Glenn Martin Quartet- Live- What Is This Thing Called Love.mp3

"When I die I want them to play 'The Black and Crazy Blues'. I want to be cremated, put in a bag

of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they get something out of it." - Roland Kirk

I was next invited to play bass with 'In Good Company' <http://www.roseonvibes.com/>, a quintet of musicians who study at the Nashville Jazz Workshop <http://www.nashvillejazz.org/>.

The group uses vibes, sax, guitar, bass, and drums to play standards by Ellington, Horace Silver, Jobim, all the usual suspects. We played at Loews Vanderbilt hotel and Guido's, also near Cool Springs.

IGC at Guido's with John Loveccio, tenor, (R.I.P. Sept 2K9), Rose on vibes, Ned Ramage, guitar, Wayne Renardson, bass and Hugh Bramhall, drums.

IGC playing Germantown Jazzfest October 2006: Carlos Ruiz (drums) Wayne Renardson (bass) Ned Ramage (guitar) John Loveccio (sax) Rose on vibes

In Good Company @ Loews Vanderbilt

Robert Wolf, (d) Wayne Renardson (b) Linda Rose (vib) Ned Ramage (g) John Loveccio (R.I.P. Sept 2k9)

Photo of the old man playing at Vanderbilt with IGC band:

The ammunition:

I play a fretless acoustic bass made by Rick Turner. The key words...acoustic, piezo PU, fretless.

<http://www.renaissanceguitars.com/basses.html>

An amazing piece of gear, it weighs 5.5 lbs yet produces through an Acoustic Image New Yorker amp <http://www.acousticimg.com/approach.html> a full, rich, bloom without clipping. Volume is sacrificed for quality of sound. The bass/amp combo weighs less than thirty pounds and can be easily carried with charts, music stand light, cables and other necessities in a wheeled luggage carrier.

Me playing the Turner bass with a recording of Black Orpheus featuring the amazing bonking Belgian Philippe Catherine, guitar, and the always tasty Dane Niels-Henning ørsted Pedersen (NHØP) on upright.

Temp. Delete

Current Affairs:

"Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles" - Henry van Dyke

I am presently working on tunes that might interest fans of jazz:

A Remark You Made Weather Report

Peggy's Blue Skylight Charles Mingus

Django MJQ-John Lewis

I Remember Clifford Benny Golson

Theme From Mash Johnny Mandel

Ballad Of The Sad Young Men Wolfe/Landsman

Autumn In New York Vernon Duke

Tossed Salad & Scrambled Eggs Phinessee & Miller

Epistrophy Thelonius Monk

Blame It On My Youth Oscar Levant

Whisper Not Benny Golson

Tunes from the old and new Real Books are a constant source of fodder, as well as songs picked up along the way. I am also an acoustic folkie at heart, and would entertain playing in a serious acoustic (is that redundant?) folk or jazz band that wants a bass player with an acoustic sensibility.

Some acoustic guitar players I have worked with: In-the-round L-R Joe Burke, Rick Renardson, and Dick Wales in Vero Beach, FL September 30, 2006

Acoustic Metaphysics: In The Round

Dick Wales, Wayne Renardson, Joe Burke, Rick Renardson back in the day.

More Metaphysics September 2009. Joe Burke, Rick Renardson, Dick Wales with three acoustic guitars.

"Music is like wine, the less you know about it, the sweeter you like it." - Robertson Davies

The Classics:

I have an interest in the bass lines of some pieces known to most beginners who engage Bach. Such tunes as 'Air On A G String', 'Sheep May Safely Graze', and 'Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring' are amazing works that have endured over centuries for good reason. If you happen to be a classical pianist or guitarist I'd be interested in working on these tunes, tho they can be, ala Jacques Loussier, done in a jazz mode, as MJQ and John Lewis demonstrated with 'Bach On Blues' and the Thomas Gabriel Trio did with Bach partitas. Sounds like wedding fare, but I do not do weddings, unless the money is incredible or you are my relative.

Space:

My home has a living room that houses a 1930s-era Baldwin 5' grand piano, several mikes, amps, and a Coda drum kit (Drummers bring their own ride and hi-hat cymbals). I am partial to drummers and a fan of such pianists as Bill Evans (Gloria's Step, Peri's Scope, Alice In Wonderland) McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, and Shearing, to name a few. My preference is for a solid, swinging bassist. My home is near Lipscomb University, and I am free most days.

Bill Evans Tunes:

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Since Bill Evans videos appeared on YouTube, I've been playing or trying to play the following:

In Your Own Sweet Way 4/4

Gloria's Step 4/4 written by Evan's bassist Scott Lefaro, this tune is played v-e-r-y fast on video.

Waltz For Debby 3/4 My Romance 4/4 Very Early 3/4 Israel 4/4

How My Heart Sings 3/4 Love it when the B section switches to 4/4. And following Evans timing and rhythmic gyrations is enough to make a person take to drink.

The Two Lonely People 3/4: Written by Evans, this tune is difficult, gorgeous, and brims with the emotion Evans was so capable of projecting. In F minor, this piece hums.

Up With The Lark 3/4 Peri's Scope 4/4

Alice In Wonderland 3/4 Evens does wonders with Disney.

Who Can I Turn To 4/4

Elsa 3/4 wonderful waltz from Earl Zindars that uses Ebmaj in the head and shifts to Gbmaj/Ebminor for the A section. Evans fondness for 3/4 is

so evident in this piece.

Days of Wine and Roses: 4/4: the video is from an August 1980 live gig in Norway which with other tunes is known as The Last Trio that consisted of Bill Evans, Marc Johnson (b) , and Joe LaBarbera (d). Evans was shortly thereafter dead. Challenge to determine key center(s), tho it begins in Fmajor.

I love this trio, and while I detest bass solos, Marc Johnson is inspired. The band takes this chestnut and burns through it, not slowly but carefully, roasting it to perfection.

"Bill Evans was the kind of artist critics embrace because he did things in public they couldn’t do, and he seems particularly well suited to writers, musicians, and others of solitary, melancholic pursuits." For a piece on why someone claims their teacher at Berkeley made them "hate Bill Evans" see this:

Bagatellen: Signifying Junkie

If you have an interest in playing these songs, or others, feel free to e-mail me at:

wayne@renardson.org

wayne dot renardson at comcast dot net