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Good news for fans of the Jazz Corner: Jazz stalwart Downbeat magazine has ranked the Hilton Head venue one of its top 150 “Great Jazz Rooms in the World” in its February issue —the most “prestigious award” the club has ever received, says club owner Bob Masteller.
“Because it’s international in scope, this ranking has a special meaning. It reflects on our island as well as our state,” Masteller says. “The fact that we were the only club on the southeast coast also makes it very special.”
The club is also the only South Carolina venue to make the cut.
“It is a measure of our club applied through the watchful, keen eyes of the international musicians who play in the room,” Masteller says. “From that perspective — which is that of an artist — it carries an international respect.”
“Weeknights at the Jazz Corner are for long-standing gigs,” Downbeat writes. “Trumpeter Bob Masteller, the club’s owner, imbues Tuesdays with New Orleans jazz for $5, and singer Bobby Ryder and his big band swing two Wednesdays a month. Regional and national musicians take over on weekends.”
A digital version of Downbeat is available on the magazine’s website at www.downbeat.com.
Details: 843-842-8620, www.thejazzcorner.com
