Cameron Graves

Cameron Graves – Seven (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:29 minutes | 748 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artistry Music

Pianist, composer and vocalist Cameron Graves calls the music he’s architected for his new Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group release thrash-jazz, though that only begins to tell the story. Yes, upon an initial listen, the juggernaut metal force and hardcore precision of Seven can knock you back. After all, Graves grew up in metal-rich Los Angeles, headbanging to Living Colour as a kid and, after immersing himself in jazz and classical studies for years, reigniting his love for hard rock through records by Pantera, Slipknot and his most profound metal influence, Swedish titans Meshuggah.

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Cameron Graves – Planetary Prince: The Eternal Survival (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:09 minutes | 640 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Keyboardist, pianist and composer Cameron Graves’ Planetary Prince EP features fellow members of the Los Angeles collective West Coast Get Down on this groundbreaking fusion of jazz, classical, hip-hop, and rock music.

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Cameron Graves – Planetary Prince (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:13 minutes | 935 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Mack Avenue Records

Visionary pianist, keyboardist, composer and West Coast Get Down founding member Cameron Graves makes his debut with Planetary Prince, packed with the same mind-expanding invention that marked the WCGD’s music. Planetary Prince continues an evolution for Graves, his scope and ambition even more evident. There is an infectious raw energy throughout, coupled with terrific melodies and blistering solo work. The core of the band is made up of fellow WCGD players whose musical and personal relationships with Graves stretch back to their high school days: tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington, trombonist Ryan Porter, bassist Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner and drummer Ronald Bruner Jr. To their ranks are added trumpeter Philip Dizack and bassist Hadrien Feraud, both key figures in the groundbreaking modern L.A. jazz scene.

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Cameron Graves – Live from the Seven Spheres (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:15 minutes | 670 MB | Genre: Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Artistry Music

A card-carrying member of the West Coast Get Down, the loose collective of merry fusioneers revolving around Kamasi Washington and Thundercat, Cameron Graves has spun his own notoriety off into an exciting solo career. While his two studio albums to date haven’t broken any new ground in the turbocharged fusion sweepstakes, they have celebrated the pure joy of ripping it up on one’s instruments and keeping the good vibes going as aggressively as possible. All of that goes double on Live From the Seven Spheres. Indeed recorded live in concert, the record presents Graves and his regular sidefolk – guitarist Colin Cook,, bassist Max Gerl and drummer Mike Mitchell – putting the leader’s melodic jazz rockers through the ringer.
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