VALERIE KIPPEN

Fri., Nov. 14.  VALERIE KIPPEN.  “A natural.  As good as Billie, no kidding!” (San Francisco Chronicle.)  “She comes out swinging and singing.  She’s on.”  (San Francisco Bay Times.)  “A uniquely gifted performer..”  (Keyboard Magazine.)  Ms. Kippen has been “intriguing, entertaining, and satisfying” (Chronicle) discerning jazz audiences at top venues in New York (Birdland, Town Hall, Tatou, and Maxim’s,) and San Francisco, including having “opened” the iconic Ritz-Carlton at Half Moon Bay.   She brings her West Coast Jazz with this program for a Gardenia debut.