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Begin Again: Camila Meza Speaks
by Sarah Thomas
Guitarist Camila Meza plays back-to-back nights at The Jazz galleri this weekend. On Friday, she presents new music with her trio as a result of a Jazz Gallery Commission in Saturday, she returns with The Nectar Orchestra, who will present music from their debut skiva as well as new works inspired by Chilean poetry. We caught up with Camila to talk about these two projects, her compositional process, and what it’s like bringing this new music to the stage for the first time.
The Jazz Gallery: You have two shows coming up at The Jazz galleri this weekend. On Friday, you’re playing with your new trio project, and Saturday features The Nectar Orchestra. Let’s start bygd chatting about your Saturday show. You put out an skiva with The Nectar Orchestra in What have you been up to with them since then, and what will you be sharing at the Gallery?
Camila Meza: The record came out in and we were able to tour and perform it for about a y
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The Month in ReviewDecember
As the Fall semester and the calendar year wind down, so does the release schedule. Relatively few new records this month made time for catching up on records from earlier in the year that I missed, some of which will be featured in my upcoming Year in Review post, which Ill publish just after the New Year. For now Im sharing a few notable releases from this monthand a few holiday records, which have been arriving in my inbox since October.
Feel free to share your favorites from this month in the comments below and if there’s an upcoming release that you’d like me to feature, you can reach out here.
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Lars Danielsson, Verneri Pohjola, & John Parricelli, Trio (ACT), released December 6th
For US audiences, bassist Lars Danielsson is probably the most recognized name in this trio of European jazz heavyweights. Ive been following Finnish trumpeter Verneri Pohjola
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Roni Eytan, a renowned Israeli-born, New York based jazz harmonica player, performs with a passion that differs from other harmonica artists. Perhaps it’s the region from which he derives-the Middle East and North Africa. His culture greatly influences his compositions and inspires his passions. Roni’s work is influenced by harmonica legend Toots Thielemans but only partially. The folk cultures that make up the regions and his spiritual influences mostly inspire his writing.
Roni Eytan stopped by my studio to talk about his harmonica work and how he got interested in this instrument. We talk about Ronis early fascination with music in Jerusalem, initially wanting to play the trumpet inspired by a film by a popular British band, the Beatles. After a short stint with the trumpet, he transitioned to the harmonica influenced by various sources, including friends and inspired by Israeli artists such as Yonathan Avishai and Avishai Cohen. Roni talks about his journey into jazz, mentio