Hiromi Uehara

She's pretty good. Reminds me a lot of ELP. That part beginning with that bass line at around 1:00 sounds a lot like Tarkus.
 
i've seen her live. her band overshadows her talentwise. she's great though.

she also cops some stuff from king crimson/dream theater/rush other prog groups.

Wow, cool you saw her live...

I saw some lives on youtube and she seems quite in par with the band. If she lacks technique and experience, I still love her writing a lot, she is the one who writes the musical themes etc..