Vanessa Rodrigues

From the Atlantic Jazz Festival program: "From McGill jazz student to pianist for Montreal's premier Salsa/Merengue band, Orquesta Pambiche, to forming her own 11-piece Tower of Power style funk band, Groove Prophecy, and a Floridian pilgrimage to study with the legendary jazz B3 organist Dr. Lonnie Smith, Rodrigues has arrived - performing at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, with Mike Murley, John Abercrombie and Dave Douglas and jamming with Joey DeFrancesco." Also she refs Soulive as a big influence.

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