When Jazz pianist and composer Martin Lesch isn’t at The Jazz Corner playing with his band, he’s helping out with the Junior Jazz Foundation which works to promote jazz education in area schools. The Junior Jazz Foundation is a non-profit counterpart of The Jazz Corner in Hilton Head Island that serves to further the education of jazz to the youth. They sponsor an annual jazz camp here on the island and run a yearly Jazz Festival in addition to giving scholarships and grants to local schools.He also an advocate for the arts on the political level.