Charles Williams feat. David Valdez & Angela Carol Brown : Show 1 of 2

1600 East 18th Street,Kansas City MO 64108

05 June, 2021

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Charles Williams feat. David Valdez & Angela Carol Brown headline two shows at the Blue Room, American Jazz Museum's jazz club Charles D. Williams is a native of Kansas City, Kansas. Mr. Williams has played piano for over 40 years. He studied under Mr. Leon Brady at Sumner High School. Mr. Williams has been the pianist for the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra since its start in 2003, and is now the regular pianist at the Hyatt hotel restaurant SKIES in downtown Kansas City on weekends. He also has played for many singers in the jazz community. Mr Williams has played in Morocco, Brazil and the Music City Jam hosted by Kirk Whalum. Has played behind Dizzy Gillespie, Cannonball & Nat Adderly, Max Roach, Rich Matteson and many more. For the last thirty-five years David Valdez, an internationally recognized saxophonist, bandleader, and clinician, has performed at major jazz and music festivals in Canada, Europe, Japan, Mexico, India, and across the United States, with some of the biggest names in Jazz. He has released six CDs as a leader. His 2007 CD, Oasis, received radio airplay in 14 countries worldwide. In 2017, Valdez released a Chamber-Jazz CD, Shades of Happiness, on the ARC label. In addition to being a writer, Angela is a veteran of the L.A. music scene after having worked for nearly three decades as a vocalist and recording artist. She has recorded voice-overs, movie cues, jingles, and CDs for herself and other artists, including: Josh Groban's hit single "You Raise Me Up" on his Closer CD for Warner Bros. Records, and demo tests for Matt Stone and Trey Parker's The Book of Mormon. She has worked theater, clubs, concert halls, television, and radio, in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including her critically lauded, self-penned Off-Broadway one-woman show The Purple Sleep Café, at Primary Stages' 45th Street Theater in New York City, and as one of the lead vocalists of the award-winning, genre-bending, and exquisitely radical 30-piece ELVIS SCHOENBERG'S ORCHESTRE SURREAL, as "The Fabulous Miss Thing," which won L.A. Music Award’s “2004 Best Rock Opera of the Year” for their show Symphony of the Absurd.