Featured Artist
30 - April - 2021
Meza is musically inspired by jazz guitarists like George Benson and Pat Metheny as well as being influenced by South American music and folk, she first studied with Jorge Vidal and Jorge Díaz.
Increasingly oriented to Claudia Acuña from the mid-2000s
she worked on the jazz scene of her home-town, where her
first recording Giovanni Cultrera, Espinoza y Cia
(Navidad en Jazz) was released in 2005. In 2007 she
presented her debut album Skylark (Stateside).
In 2009 Meza moved to New York to study guitar at
The New School with Peter Bernstein, Vic Juris
and Steve Cardenas. Since then she also has
worked on the New York jazz scene with
Ryan Keberle (Into the Zone, 2014), Lucas
Pino, Fabian Almazan and directs her
own jazz octet,
The Nectar Orchestra.
She recorded for
Sunnyside Records the
album Traces (2016, with
Shai Maestro, Matt Penman,
Kendrick Scott, Bashiri
Johnson, Jody Redhage, Sachal
Vasandani), sings Spanish and
English, and won two Independent
Music Awards as the Best Adult
Contemporary Album and Best Latin
Song ("Para Volar"). Also on the albums Find
the Common, Shine a Light by Ryan Keberle
and Sounds from the Deep Field by Bryan
Copeland she seemed outstanding in the
opinion of the critics
As a singer she can also be heard on Carolina
Calvache's Ballad "La Última Vez". In 2017 the
Camila Meza Quartet performed at the Festival
Jazzahead. The following year she brought Gina
Schwarz as part of her Pannonica project, Porgy & Bess in
Vienna. Meza was nominated in the category
of guitarist and female singer as a Rising Star
in the critics poll of the Down Beat in 2018..
Nate Chinen described Meza's vocals as "an
appealing combination of lightness and depth, that
sings with a bright, clear voice against the agile uproar
of a world-class band." in The New York Times.
The discographer Tom Lord lists them between 2005 and 2015 with participation in eight recording sessions.