Westchester Collaborative Theater Jazz Masters Series Presents Pianist/Vocalist Valerie Capers

On Saturday, August 3, Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) continues its Jazz Masters music series with the Valerie Capers Quartet featuring Capers an accomplished performer, educator and composer and her band. Joining Capers will be John Robinson on bass, Alan Givens on saxophone and flute and Doug Richardson on drums. The band will perform two sets at 7:30 and 9 pm at WCT, 23 Water Street in Ossining.

Dr. Capers has appeared with her trio and ensemble at colleges, universities, jazz festivals, clubs, and concert halls throughout the country as well as internationally, including the Chautauqua Institution and Dizzy's Coca-Cola Club (Jazz at Lincoln Center). She has also participated in the Monterey Jazz Festival; New York City's Kool, JVC and Downtown jazz festivals and the International Grande Parade du Jazz Festival (Nice, France). Dr. Capers is also regularly heard in New York City at The Kitano on Park Avenue South, and at the Knickerbocker Bar & Grill and Mezzrow, both in Greenwich Village.

Her numerous radio and television program appearances include Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz (twice) and Branford Marsalis' JazzSet. Adventures of Wagner in Jazz, a special program created by National Public Radio (NPR), and About Music (two separate programs, "Traditions and Personalities in Jazz Piano" and "American Composer and Piano Virtuoso: Louis Moreau Gottschalk"), were all broadcast on KBYU-FM in Provo, Utah, and carried throughout the country on NPR.

Throughout her career, she has performed with a roster of outstanding artists, including Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Ray Brown, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Slide Hampton, Max Roach, James Moody, Paquito D'Rivera, and Jerry Weldon, among others.

$20 Tickets can be purchased online at: https://valeriecapers19.brownpapertickets.com/ (limited seating available; advance purchase is strongly recommended.) Refreshments will be available.

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