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Kevin Mahogany

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Kevin Mahogany opened his four-night engagement at Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase last night to an unjustly small audience that included four people from Iceland.  I last saw Mahogany 23 years ago at the Denver Botanic Gardens on a rainy summer night.  As I told Kevin after the second set, I should probably pay him for the blue rain slicker that I found on the ground that night.  I have traveled the world with it.

Indispensable

One of the highlights of this year's Hyde Park Jazz Festival was the opportunity to see and hear the great jazz trumpeter, Tom Harrell, together with TRIP, which also features saxophonist Mark Turner.  A tight unit that plays gorgeous music.  Still lots of humidty in the air, but the darkness and dark greenish-yellow hues portend Fall.