Kevin Mahogany, Vocal jazz Artist

This week’s Featured Artist came to the forefront of vocal jazz in the 1990s, and is well known by fans around the world for his scat singing.  He played the piano, clarinet and baritone saxophone before he started singing in high school, and played saxophone on his first professional gig with Eddie Baker’s New Breed Orchestra.  Meet jazz vocalist – Kevin Mahogany

Born in Kansas City, Missouri

Genre: Vocal Jazz

With over ten recordings as a leader, vocalist, businessman and educator Kevin Mahogany has been the standard setter for jazz vocalists for three decades.

His broad baritone was forged in his hometown of Kansas City, where he learned to swing like Charlie Parker, shout the blues like Big Joe Turner, and cry a ballad like Lester Young.  While refining his craft he also worked at extending the jazz vocal legacies of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Eddie Jefferson and Al Jarreau.

Mahogany played the piano, clarinet and baritone saxophone before he started singing in high school. He played saxophone on his first professional gig with Eddie Baker’s New Breed Orchestra.

Mahogany studied with local jazz legend Ahmad Aladeen at the Charlie Parker Academy, and matriculated at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, where he formed a jazz vocal choir and earned a BFA in Music, English and Drama in 1981. He returned home and joined a nine-piece horn band called Robinson-Pike, and later formed two R&B-centric bands The Apollos and Mahogany.

Biographical information courtesy of Kevin Mahogany; for more reading see link below

http://www.kevinmahogany.com/biography.html