Dave Renz: Linx
Local Venues Supporting Live Music!
- Paradocx Vineyards
- Southern Chester County Vineyard...Great products, and supporters of live music!
- Sprazzo
- Cool coffee shop in West Chester...great coffee and food, and supporters of live music!
Artists
- The Acoustic Groove Project is on MySpace
- Visit our other site...sign up and become a friend!
- 6th Street Quaternion
- Home page for 6th Street...Art Stephano's cool jazz project that I have the pleasure of working with often! Sometimes a quartet, sometimes a quintet, always fun to play with and listen to! Versatile...for clubs or private events!
- Dave Mohn
- Check out the site of great drummer and friend, Dave Mohn. He is a great web designer, too!
- Miles of Music - Bob Miles
- This is the site for Bob's TV show. Great guitar tribute site!
- Bernie Klemmer
- Cool site of Bernie Klemmer, who I am pleased to play with regularly...great song writing and some links to other great musicians he collaborates with!
- Rob Swanson
- Great friend and bassist/composer. Cool world influenced jazz. Check him out and support local music!
- Shawn Qaissaunee
- Q's Web Site...great stuff from this talented area musician!
- Alex Levin
- Some really beautiful writing and tasty playing from this New York piano trio. Check out Alex's site and continue to support original live music!
Rock + Blues
- Voodoo De Ville
- Fun local blues band with one of the greatest web sites ever! These guys have nick names and everything!
- Big Eyed Bees
- West Grove based band I have had the pleasure of knowing and recording with! Check their music out...cool rock-oriented tunes w/ a broad variety of influences...Rock-a-Billy/Blue Grass/Jazz and it all works! Features Charlie Breuninger and sons Carl and Ben who I've enjoyed working with at the high school and middle school these past few years!
Equipment and Resources
- Host Baby
- Great Site for Web Hosting! Reasonable rates, easy to use, and great service.
- PG Music...makers of band in a box.
- Band-in-a-box...if you want to feel like you're practicing with a band, this will do it...easily generates chorus after chorus with enough diversity to not bring on boredom...much better than any loop or sequencing software, and blows away play-along books.
- Pandora!
- This place ROCKS...type in a famous musician or song, and it will stream music of lesser known players in similar style! Very cool way to find out about players you like!
- Taylor's Music
- West Chester Music Store...Check it out if you need equipment, tips, or want to take up a new instrument!
Clubs/Venues
- Chris' Jazz Cafe
- Great Philly Jazz spot!
- Ortleib's Jazzhaus
- Another Great Philly Jazz Spot!