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Radio & Podcasts

New music from Shob, Commodore, and Cameron Graves

Read "New music from Shob, Commodore, and Cameron Graves" reviewed by Len Davis


Music from Brazil with Neural Code, Cuca Teixira and Igor Wicox. Helmet of Gnats, Allan Holdsworth, Cameron Graves and from Spain, Iceberg with some prog rock.Playlist Neural Code “Equqcao do Tempo" from Neural Code (Self Produced) 00:00 Cuca Teixira “Tunta" from Groove Reunion (Self Produced) 06:58 Commodore “Cuatro jefes-en Vivo" from Commodore en Vivo (Brabacam) 13:58 Helmet of Gnats “Surging Valente" from Travelogue (Ambient) 21:01 Allan Holdsworth “Texas-Live" from Jarasum Jazz Festival 2014 (Manifesto) 28:14 Igor Wilcox “Message ...

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Radio & Podcasts

New music from Cameron Graves, Timothee Robert, Andy Timmons and David Binney

Read "New music from Cameron Graves, Timothee Robert, Andy Timmons and David Binney" reviewed by Len Davis


New music from pianist Cameron Graves with his new release Live From Seven Spheres. French Bassist Timothee Robert, and guitarist Andy Timmons, plus Jane Getter, Adam Holzman, Alex Skolnick and David Binney.Playlist Cameron Graves"Red" from Live From Seven Spheres (Mack Avenue) 00:00 Timothee Robert"Le Chemin du peril" from Quark (La Pluie Chante) 05:41 Andy Timmons “EWF" from Electric Truth (Timstone) 11:21 Jane Getter"Queen Of Spies" from Anomalia (Esoteric Antenna) 16:58 Adam Holzman"Good Luck With Your Music" from The ...

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Album Review

Cameron Graves: Live From the Seven Spheres

Read "Live From the Seven Spheres" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Since bursting on to the scene full-birthed as part of the West Coast Get Down collective spotlighted on Kamasi Washington's truly epic debut, The Epic (Brainfeeder, 2015), fire-balling pianist Cameron Graves, even when entertaining his inner Chopin, comes at the listener with a force and fury that blows the doors in, windows out, senses to smithereens. Live From the Seven Spheres continues the onslaught Graves ignited on his flame-throwing debut, Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue, 2017) and the equally ...

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Interview

Cameron Graves: Inventing Thrash-Jazz

Read "Cameron Graves: Inventing Thrash-Jazz" reviewed by Scott Krane


Pianist and composer, Cameron Graves, arrived on the scene in his late teens and early twenties, possessing a proclivity for classical music, an unquenchable passion for heavy metal, and a jazz sensibility and lexicon of musicality. According to the website of Mack Avenue Records, the label that signed Graves and put out his debut solo release, 2017's Planetary Prince, Graves tags his sound as “thrash-jazz," especially the music heard on his follow-up release for Mack Avenue Records, Seven, released earlier ...

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Album Review

Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince

Read "Planetary Prince" reviewed by Christopher Hoard


Cameron Graves' debut recording, Planetary Prince (Mack Avenue) is an original and refreshing “piano jazz" outing. It's horn sextet dynamics provide familiar entry points and references into the musical sphere Graves inhabits as composer, arranger, and performer, but the extreme energy levels and sophisticated ensemble dynamics confidently echo the great bands of the jazz-rock era; perhaps it's no coincidence Graves has been touring with Stanley Clarke's band for the past two years, and has also been an integral presence touring, ...

Album Review

Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince

Read "Planetary Prince" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Si chiama Cameron Graves ed è il pianista dell'ensemble di Kamasi Washington, controversa figura della musica afroamericana capace con la pubblicazione di Epic di far nascere tra i commentatori e gli addetti ai lavori di mezzo mondo una querelle da tifo calcistico. L'album a suo nome si intitola Planetary Prince è stato registrato in una session maratona di undici ore e vede sostanzialmente all'opera una versione ridotta del collettivo denominato West Coast Get Down, interprete del già ricordato triplo album. ...


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