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Canadian Jazz Series<br />
Rodrigues/Gale Quartet<br />
This evening features former Edmontonian Vanessa<br />
Rodrigues on organ and piano, in the company<br />
of Toronto’s Chris Gale on saxophone. Another<br />
former Edmontonian, Mike Rud, is featured on<br />
guitar along with Davide DiRenzo on drums.<br />
Vanessa graduated from McGill University<br />
with a degree in jazz performance (piano) in<br />
June of 2000. She has attended the reputable<br />
International Jazz Workshop at the Banff Centre<br />
for the Arts, and returned to the Centre in 2003,<br />
this time on Hammond B-3 organ, where she<br />
had occasion to perform with world-class faculty<br />
members Mike Murley, John Abercrombie, and<br />
Dave Douglas. She is the first and only organist<br />
to attend the program to date.<br />
In February of 2002, Vanessa took a special<br />
trip to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where she<br />
spent one month as a live-in student, crashing<br />
on world-renowned jazz organist Dr. Lonnie<br />
Smith’s couch! Later that year, she went on to<br />
perform at the Montreal International Jazz<br />
Festival with her own original soul-jazz organ<br />
trio, and hosted a popular organ jam session<br />
for the duration of the festival. She has since<br />
gone on to host organ jam sessions all over<br />
Eastern Canada and counts organ great Joey<br />
DeFrancesco, saxophonist Kenny Garrett, and<br />
late Canadian musical icons Doug Riley and Jeff<br />
Healey among her distinguished guests.<br />
Vanessa has released three albums as a leader:<br />
Soul Project (2005), Soul Food for Thought (2009),<br />
and Gale/Rodrigues Group Live at the Rex (2007),<br />
a collaborative effort with Gale.<br />
Read more at www.yardbirdsuite.com<br />
when...<br />
Rodrigues/Gale Quartet<br />
From Montreal/Toronto<br />
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 2010<br />
TICKETS - MEMBERS $14, GUESTS $18<br />
DOORS - 8 PM - SHOW 9 PM<br />
Chris Gale - saxophone<br />
Vanessa Rodrigues - Hammond organ<br />
Mike Rud - guitar<br />
Davide DiRenzo – drums<br />
Artist website:<br />
www.vanessarodrigues.com<br />
www.chrisgalesax.com<br />
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