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Gloria Krolak

Hi-Hats Off to The Jazz Corner on Its 25th

by Gloria Krolak
April 8, 2024

Twenty-five years ago, on March 30, 1999, Bob and Lois Masteller opened their club, The Jazz Corner, on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. They had both enjoyed productive careers, he in human resources, she in property management. Now it was time to indulge their passion for jazz. Bob grew up with music in the house--his dad ...

Jazz Lines Spoken

Label: gmk publishing
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sweet Jazz O'Mine, Misterioso, All Blues, It Was A Very Good Year, The Song, The Melody, The Dream Is You, Jazz Haiku, Cookin' at the Continental, Centerpiece, Countdown, Lush Life, What a Wonderful World, Opus De Funk, Question and Answer, Reunion, Let's Face the Music and Dance

Jazz Lines Spoken

Label: gmk publishing
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sweet Jazz O'Mine, Misterioso, All Blues, It Was A Very Good Year, The Song, The Melody, The Dream Is You, Jazz Haiku, Cookin' at the Continental, Centerpiece, Countdown, Lush Life, What a Wonderful World, Opus De Funk, Question and Answer, Reunion, Let's Face the Music and Dance

Jazz Lines: Free Verse In The Key Of Jazz

by Gloria Krolak
June 11, 2023

Duke Ellington, composer, arranger, pianist and originator of big-band jazz, wrote “Sweet Jazz O'Mine" in 1930 when the genre was blooming. As a bandleader, Ellington was unsurpassed. He chose his musicians wisely and inspired some of their best work. “Sweet Jazz" is a lively foxtrot celebrating this unorthodox new style that had people dancing and feeling ...

The Fabulous Nicknames Of Jazz

by Gloria Krolak
March 31, 2020

Nicknames. Used to be that every baseball player worth his ash bat earned a nickname. The Babe, Yogi Berra, The Kid, Three Finger. Football and basketball were no different. Boomer Esiason, Big Spain, Birdman, Air Jordan. While soccer in America seems to have escaped this mostly male preoccupation of renaming people, golf, that most courteous sport, ...

Tierney Sutton At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
February 12, 2020

Tierney Sutton The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC February 8, 2020 When a lady has chosen nine new outfits, attended nine nerve wracking awards dinners and been nominated for nine Grammys since 2006, it would simply be impolite not to vote for her to win next time. Tierney Sutton certainly ...

Jazz Lines: Free Verse in the Key of Jazz Both Erudite and Playful by Gloria Krolak

August 16, 2019

Jazz Lines: Free Verse in the Key of JazzGloria Krolak 96 PagesISBN 978-1-938417-53-5Lydia Inglett Starbooks Publishing2019 Jazz Lines: Free Verse in the Key of Jazz, is a unique, beautifully assembled coffee table book by longtime radio host, jazz columnist and distinguished patron of the arts, Gloria Krolak. The book features a ...

The Jazz Corner's Lois Masteller Makes It Happen

by Gloria Krolak
February 21, 2018

As a child my mother and legion of aunts--I'm from a large Italian family--tried to impose the “meant to be" philosophy on me. Remember the tune “Que Sera, Sera/Whatever will be, will be"? When something good happened, say you won a ribbon at the science fair, it was because “it was meant to be." The converse ...

At Mara's... Sweet, Savory and Seasoned with Jazz

by Gloria Krolak
February 7, 2016

On a Friday night at Mara's Café and Bakery in Berkeley Heights, you can satisfy several cravings at once: Answer the dinner bell, soothe a sweet tooth and hear eight New Jersey locals wail at some not-so-standard jazz tunes. The octet is Jazz Lab 6+2, which began as a sextet, then added two more players. These ...