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Jody Nardone Trio
Saturday, September 19, 2026 · 5:30 PM · Rudy's Jazz Room, The Gulch
The Read
Early sets are a different animal. The band is warming up, the room is half-full, the volume sits lower, and the playing tends toward standards and conversation rather than statement. Jody Nardone is a working Nashville pianist, and a trio under his name at this hour implies exactly that: three players, no agenda, good material handled well. Rudy’s is in the Gulch, which makes this an easy first stop before anything else you have planned downtown. Get a table, order food, listen properly for ninety minutes, and be somewhere else by eight. The whole appeal is that it does not consume the evening — it improves the front of it.
The Room
Rudy's Jazz Room
809 Gleaves St
The closest thing Nashville has to a dedicated jazz club — table seating, close listening, and a Gulch location that feels apart from the Gulch.
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Shape The Night
Before
Peg Leg PorkerCarey Bringle named the restaurant after the leg cancer took when he was a kid. Texas Monthly called the dry-rub pork ribs the best Memphis-style in the country. That's the order. Don't skip the pimento cheese.
Show: Jody Nardone Trio at 5:30 PM
After
Marsh House$1.50 oysters at happy hour Monday through Friday, 5 to 7pm — one of the better steals in The Gulch. Gulf Coast-rooted, New Orleans-inflected. Brack May is in the kitchen.