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Jazz Masters Series The Valerie Capers Quartet at Westchester Collaborative Theater
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 Dizzys Coca-Cola Club (Jazz at Lincoln Center). She has also participated in the Monterey Jazz Festival; New York Citys 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 McPartlands 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 DRivera, and Jerry Weldon, among others.
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LocationWCT - Westchester Collaborative Theater (View)
23 Water Street
Ossining, NY 10562
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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