Guitar and harmonica virtuoso Pat Bergeson leads a powerhouse organ trio featuring Nashville Hammond organ master Charles Treadway and drummer Chris Brown, bringing together jazz, blues, soul and deep-groove organ trio traditions.

Guitarist and harmonica player Pat Bergeson grew up in Batavia, Illinois, studied music at the University of Illinois and jazz at William Paterson University, and spent ten years honing his craft in New York City before Chet Atkins brought him to Nashville in the early 1990s after hearing him on a demo tape. Bergeson went on to record and tour with Atkins and was featured on projects including Sneakin’ Around with Jerry Reed and Read My Licks. Equally accomplished on guitar and both diatonic and chromatic harmonica, Bergeson has built a remarkably diverse career spanning jazz, blues, country, soul and pop, performing and recording with artists including Lyle Lovett, Dolly Parton, Alison Krauss, Michael McDonald, Tommy Emmanuel, Bill Frisell, Joey DeFrancesco, Benny Golson, Madeleine Peyroux, Suzy Bogguss, Peter Frampton and many others. He has also toured extensively with Lyle Lovett’s Large Band and Madeleine Peyroux and remains one of Nashville’s most versatile and respected instrumentalists.

Charles Treadway is one of Nashville’s premier Hammond organists, known for a soulful, groove-driven style rooted in the great jazz, blues, funk and R&B organ traditions of Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff and Joey DeFrancesco. A longtime fixture in Nashville’s music scene, Treadway has performed with leading jazz and blues musicians including guitarist Jack Pearson and spent years as a member of the deep-funk group The Dynamites featuring legendary Nashville soul singer Charles “Wigg” Walker. Treadway and Walker continued their musical partnership through regular organ-trio performances, and Treadway later became a key creative force behind Walker’s acclaimed album This Love Is Gonna Last, serving as a longtime musical collaborator, organist, producer and co-writer. His command of the Hammond B3, deep pocket and improvisational fire have made him a sought-after player across Nashville’s jazz, blues and soul communities.

Pat Bergeson – guitar & harmonica
Charles Treadway – Hammond organ
Chris Brown – drums

Four distinguished members of the Blair School of Music faculty come together for an evening of jazz, bringing a wealth of performing, recording, touring and teaching experience to the Rudy’s stage. Pianist Pat Coil, saxophonist Dan Hitchcock, bassist Rob Linton and drummer Marc Widenhofer each balance active professional careers with their work educating the next generation of musicians at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.

Pianist Pat Coil is a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music and has toured throughout Japan, South America, Europe and the U.S. with artists including Michael McDonald, Carmen McRae, Olivia Newton-John, Amy Grant, Vince Gill and Woody Herman. His extensive recording credits include Natalie Cole, Trisha Yearwood, Ernie Watts, BeBe & CeCe Winans, Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt, Peter Cetera and Michael McDonald. During his years in Los Angeles, Coil also performed on numerous film and television scores, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Murphy Brown and Growing Pains, and appeared with artists on The Tonight Show, Arsenio Hall and Conan O’Brien. Now based in Nashville, he continues an active career as a pianist, composer, arranger, producer and educator, and has released several albums as a leader.

Originally from Columbus, Ohio, Dan Hitchcock is a saxophonist with a unique, yet authentic voice. Dan is at home in a wide range of musical styles, and has spent years studying the vast lineage of saxophone greats from the last 100 years. Having a particular affinity with the romantic tenor styles of Stan Getz, Ben Webster, and Lester Young, Dan is often called an old soul. After 2 years living in Nashville, Dan has enjoyed the opportunity to perform with Nashville-based, international touring artists like Sweet Megg, Rome and Duddy, and Post Modern Jukebox, as well performing with staples of the Nashville jazz scene like Bruce Dudley, Andy Reiss, Roland Barber, Nashville Jazz Orchestra, PT Gazzell, Chris Mondak, the Sofia Goodman Group, and many others. Dan has contributed woodwinds to many recordings in the past few years, including Sofia Goodman Group’s downbeat-acclaimed 2023 release “Secrets of the Shore”, where Dan recorded tenor, alto, and soprano saxophones alongside world renowned tenorist Joel Frahm.

Rob Linton is a versatile bassist from Charlotte, North Carolina and a member of the jazz faculty at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, where he teaches jazz bass and jazz combos. Linton has performed and toured with Eric Reed, Greg Tardy, Dave Potter & Retro Groove and Variego3, while also working with musicians including Don Aliquo, Taber Gable, Jonathan Barber, Stacey Dillard, Mark Boling and many others. In addition to Blair, he has taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Gardner-Webb University and the University of Tennessee, and previously served as bass instructor for the Knoxville Jazz Workshop. Linton holds a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and an M.M. from the University of Tennessee.

Drummer Marc Widenhofer is an in-demand Nashville jazz musician and educator who also serves on the faculty of Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. A versatile and dynamic drummer, Widenhofer has performed with artists including Houston Person, Roger Pemberton, Ron Bridgewater, Janguen Bae, Bert Ligon, Chip Stephens, Larry Gray, Chip McNeil and the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra. He was also a featured artist at the 2012 Taichung International Jazz Festival, performing with the JB Trio and saxophonist Greg Osby. In addition to teaching at Blair, Widenhofer maintains an active performance schedule throughout Nashville and regularly leads his own ensembles featuring many of the city’s finest jazz musicians.

Pat Coil – piano
Dan Hitchcock - saxophone
Rob Linton – bass
Marc Widenhofer – drums​

The Geoff Pfeifer Quartet, gritty, edgy, the real deal NYC style jazz. Saxophonist Geoff Pfeifer brings some of Nashville's top jazz cats out, and you'll be sure to feel the energy. Playing a mix of original material and Wayne Shorter tunes.

Geoff Pfeifer, a Nashville based musician and composer, has been living and performing in Nashville since 2005. Geoff studied saxophone with Ted Nash and Ralph Lalama and composition with Mike Holober and Jim McNeely. He is a saxophonist and arranger with the R&B band Chubby and The Dots and plays the 2nd Tenor Saxophone chair in The Establishment Big Band. Geoff has shared the stage with David Liebman, Jim McNeeley, David Amram, Chico O’Farrill, Arturo O’Farrill, Frank Kimbrough, Ben Allison, Michael Blake among many other musicians.

Join one of Nashville’s favorite shows Wendy Burns Music’s Ladies of Jazz Show. Wendy Burns Music's LADIES OF JAZZ SHOW... "It's a Nashville Show to See". Featuring an exciting lineup of talent, Rudy’s Jazz Room's "Ladies of Jazz" showcase presents Nashville's favorite female vocalists collaborating together, displaying a variety of original and distinct vocal talent, backed by some of Nashville’s best and well known musicians.

Wendy Burns
Creator and producer of The Ladies Of Jazz Show, a multi year running show at Rudy’s Jazz Room.

2024 NIMA Award winner / 2022 ALM Nash Hall of Fame Inductee / 2023 & '24 Mississippi Awards Best Jazz / 2025 Southern Music Awards nominee.

Flute playing jazz vocalist Wendy Burns of Nashville TN has studied and performed songs from the 1940's Jazz Big Band era since the age of 9 years old. She has been described as having a unique voice that fits the era. She has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and has sessioned and performed with many of the Nashville classic country greats. With a deep passion for jazz standards.

Wendy believes there's beauty in staying true to the melodies as they were written. Her set list includes songs from the "Great American Songbook", jazz standards, and a number of her fabulous original pieces that reminisce of cherished jazz classics you've never heard. Wendy's influences are Judy Garland, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, The Andrew Sisters, and Helen Forrest, to name a few. You will also hear some of her original tunes in vaudeville fashion featuring "Grover" her ukulele.

"She expertly delivers jazz vocals in traditional speakeasy style and displays her exceptional talent on flute as well. She does an excellent job, a true entertainer, she holds her audience and has them laughing with her patter between songs." - Gary Cobb, Nashville Tn

"When singing the classics, I’ve always tried to sing the melodies as close to the original version as possible. I feel you can get closest to the composer's feelings by doing that and by staying within it that realm. To think that someone in a time long ago did their best to put their feelings and words of love on a sheet of paper so that generations ahead would hear it just as it was written is a golden key to a door of a time before that we all need to experience" - Wendy Burns

Roz Clark-Thompson
Critics have been free with accolades for this sensational jazz singer. “A gusty songstress loaded with soul, savvy and style” says Frank Lieberman of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner. The Hollywood Reporter called her “a real stunner, an amazingly versatile talent”. She performed the Tony Award winning role of “Aunt Em and Glenda the Good Witch of The South”, in the Broadway Musical “The Wiz”. She’s toured the world with legends, like Olivia Newton-John, Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck. While opening for various comedians like the Smothers Brothers and Bob Newhart, she also appeared in television performances with Burt Bacharach, Marvin Hamlisch, in addition to several performances on The Johnny Carson Show. Roz a former Warner Bros recording artist has also sung backgrounds with artists CeCe Winans, Donna Summer and Carmen. Don’t miss this extraordinary songstress with a powerful set of pipes sing classic jazz standards like “My Funny Valentine”, “Round Midnight” and "I’m A Woman".