Results for "Hilton Head Island"

Mark Rapp Group At The Jazz Corner

by Gloria Krolak
February 20, 2025

Mark Rapp Group The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC January 31, 2025 It was not a Tuesday and it was a full month before Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian observance of Lent, but it felt like Mardi Gras at The Jazz Corner on Hilton Head Island. Colorful ...

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: 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 Roma: The Roots of Flamenco, Gypsy Jazz, and Miles Davis' "Sketches of Spain"

by Martin McFie
February 12, 2022

In 1959, a magical year for jazz albums, Miles Davis, inspired by some flamenco performances he had heard, recorded Sketches of Spain (Columbia, 1960) at Columbia's 30th Street studio. Half of the album is a beautiful orchestral interpretation of the classical guitar piece “Concierto de Aranjuez," written twenty years before the Davis recording, by Joaquin Rodrigo, ...

The Peter And Will Anderson Trio At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
February 25, 2020

Peter and Will Anderson Trio The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC. February 21-22, 2020 Eight instruments on stage and only three musicians seemed like a challenge, particularly as the guitar was the only instrument played by Adam Moezinia. The other instruments were all for twin brothers Peter and Will Anderson ...

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 ...

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David "Davey" Masteller

Hailed as an inspirational artist by many, Davey Masteller has earned a reputation as a talented musician and skillful performer. Coming from the Low Country’s First Family of Jazz, Davey has become a powerful and well-known force in the Jazz world as well as the Rock and Pop genres of Music. He has been involved with a number of different Jazz groups, a variety of original bands, and has played behind several great singer/songwriters throughout his career. Davey can be described as a Jazzer with the heart of a Rocker. This proves to be very evident in the intensity, passion, and energy that comes through in his playing no matter what style of music he is performing. When he gets lost in his music he really shines as his true self