Large crowd enjoys Jazz in the Park event in Mountain Brook

A sizable crowd of at least 300 people turned out for a free Jazz in the Park concert in Mountain Brook on Sunday, Oct.14.

The concert — presented by the Magic City Smooth Jazz organization — began at 5 p.m. near Emmet O’Neal Library.

The show began with a performance by a bebop jazz band led by trumpet player Daniel “Jose” Carr.

Saxophonist Vann Burchfield, a Birmingham-based saxophonist, composer and producer, was also scheduled to appear.

The show was introduced by Bernard Lockhart, founder and executive director of Magic City Smooth Jazz, who told attendees that his organization — which presents nearly 30 free shows in Alabama in the spring, summer and fall — has a “very simple mission.”

He seeks to “expose and engage [audiences] to various styles of jazz,” he said.

Carr, for example, is an Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame inductee “who seeks to keep bebop jazz alive,” Lockhart said.

The event in Mountain Brook was the last in the Jazz in the Park series for 2018.