The Jazz Corner

The Jazz Corner Trio featuring Bob Masteller

Join Bob and his friends as they swing the music of Mercer, Armstrong, Jobim, Wallace, Gershwin and more! Joining Bob is an outstanding trio: Martin Lesch, Mark Husbands and Clarence Williams. And frequently he has special guests. Bob's has four CD's, all different and highly listenable! On any given Tuesday night, you can hear music from all four CD's and he might even walk up to you and hand you one. He's famous for that . . . Bob Masteller has been a major force on the musical scene of the Low Country since 1973. In the period between '73 and '80, while a Senior Vice President of The Sea Pines Company, Bob played in a group called Jazz Reborn, which included early Hilton Head Islanders Mark Stuppy and Garry Moore, the legendary entertainer. During this period Bob became well known in Savannah as the trombonist with The River Street Ramblers, which included Savannah musical legends Sam Gill and Ken Palmer. In the 1980's, Bob headed up various groups with different styles, including New Orleans, straight ahead jazz, and mood music. He has appeared at virtually every mainstream location for swing and jazz in the Low Country, including all major hotels, Hannah's East, The Golden Rose, Self Family Arts Center, USC Performing Arts Center and the Original Old Post Office on Pope Avenue. Included in the highlights of Bob's career, he has performed for Presidents Clinton, Ford and Bush and Senator Bobby Kennedy. Also in hi background was a 26-week stint at Sweet Georgia Brown in Savannah during the key moments that went into the makeup of "The Garden of Good and Evil". In the past nine years Masteller has concentrated on his lifelong dream, The Jazz Corner. The club was commissioned in 1999 with the legendary George Shearing Quintet, and is now an island institution. "The Jazz Corner" has allowed me to pursue, with equal intensity, business and artistic goals at the same time, and I feel good about both pursuits," says Bob. Masteller has conducted a Live TV series at the Jazz Corner called "The man who lived jazz" on the senior channel and also conducts seminars on The History of Jazz in various venues throughout the country.