The Jazz Corner

New Orleans Jazz with TJC Quartet and Bob Masteller

Bob is the owner of The Jazz Corner and plays his regular gig on
Tuesdays.  You can hear multi-jazz sounds from Gershwin to Jobim,
played by his multi-talented band!

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 five 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.