Jazz Articles about Camila Meza

Camila Meza: Color Inspired Optimism

by David Bixler
June 16, 2021

Camila Meza on the nature of translation, improvisation & self observation

by Leo Sidran
November 7, 2019

Camila Meza: Ámbar

by Friedrich Kunzmann
July 27, 2019

After finally stepping into the limelight with 2016's Traces (Sunnyside Records)--the record on which Camila Meza impressively solidified her very own character and place as a musician and composer--the Chilean singer / guitarist returns with an entirely different cast of musicians that has grown to orchestral proportions, and a new batch of intriguing tunes that consist of the same amount of originals as covers. While the notion of songwriting and singing has always played an important role in ...

Camila Meza & the Nectar Orchestra: Ámbar

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 6, 2019

With Ámbar, the Chilean-born New York vocalist, instrumentalist and composer Camila Meza, here recording with the marvelous Nectar Orchestra, sends out a dozen tracks of intriguing, highly-textured culturally-rich music. The material, creatively superb and impeccably performed all around, not only reinforces the fact that Meza is an acknowledged Downbeat Magazine Rising Star, but also vividly demonstrates her awesome vocal and guitar talents. Here exotic rhythmic and melodic flavors of heavily ethnic-flavored music swirl and beguile. The utter ...

Lucas Pino's No Net Nonet: That's a Computer

by Jerome Wilson
May 21, 2019

Lucas Pino is a New York-based tenor saxophonist who leads the No Net Nonet, a band that fits snugly into the jazz tradition but displays its own style of creativity. Despite what this CD's title suggests, this group's music is full of emotion and warmth. That is evident from the outset with “Antiquity," written by alto saxophonist Alex LoRe; this is a floating melody that meshes undulating lines of tenor, piano and guitar together within a cocoon of ...

Lucas Pino: That's a Computer

by Angelo Leonardi
February 19, 2019

Dal 2013 il sassofonista e compositore Lucas Pino dirige il suo “No Net Nonet" esibendosi tutti i mesi allo Smalls Jazz Club di New York, senza trascurare altre scritture. L'organico è nato nel 2009, da allora ha cambiato solo un componente e la regolarità del rapporto spiega la coesione e l'equilibrio evidenziati in questo terzo album. Recentemente il look di Pino è molto cambiato: il giovanotto modello anni cinquanta, con capelli corti ben pettinati, occhiali alla Cary ...

Lucas Pino: That's a Computer

by David A. Orthmann
February 13, 2019

Lucas Pino's No Net Nonet has claimed a piece of turf within the vast, sprawling, crowded field of the jazz mainstream. Its brilliantly conceived and executed efforts resist additional stylistic distinctions. Teamwork, mutually reinforcing concerns and a spirit of adventure infuse the seven tracks of That's A Computer. The compositions and arrangements by the leader, as well as one apiece by alto saxophonist Alex LoRe and guitarist Rafal Sarnecki, are bold, invigorating and rife with details that linger in memory. ...