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Cameron Graves

The release of Kamasi Washington's The Epic last year marked a seismic shift in the jazz landscape and the game-changing arrival of the genre-blurring Los Angeles collective West Coast Get Down. That evolution continues with the release of Planetary Prince, the debut album by visionary pianist, keyboardist, composer and WCGD founding member Cameron Graves. Upon signing with Mack Avenue Records, Graves’ nearly released four song EP of the same name was expanded to an eight track full length album, all packed with the same mind-expanding invention that marked all of the work previously generated by the WCGD – including Kamasi Washington’s universally acclaimed debut The Epic (which prominently featured Graves throughout its three discs)

West Coast Get Down: Kamasi Washington, Cameron Graves, Throttle Elevator Music

By RUSSELL PERRY

In the past several years, a suite of players have emerged from Los Angeles, many of whom grew up together, loosely connected by the name West Coast Get Down. The most visible player in this scene is Kamasi Washington from a jazz perspective, but Stephen “Thundercat" Bruner and Miles Mosley have made significant records in a ...

Ryan Porter: Force For Good

By CHRIS MAY

The Los Angeles jazz scene clustered around the community of session musicians known as the West Coast Get Down (WCGD), and its most prominent member (and now ex-session musician), Kamasi Washington, is a US equivalent of London's underground jazz scene. Both exist in parallel universes to the jazz establishment, both are culturally inclusive though peopled mainly ...

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2019

By MARTIN LONGLEY

Belgrade Jazz Festival Dom Omladine / Kombank Dvorana Belgrade Serbia October 22-28, 2019 Reaching its 35th edition, the Belgrade Jazz Festival added extra shows at the beginning and end of its run, making up a full week, or eight days, if the opening dj night is ...

Christian Sands: Reach Further

By MIKE JURKOVIC

With full gale Monk-ian intensity and flair, pianist Christian Sands' five song EP, Reach Further bursts open with “J-Street" like the grandest, most swinging first flower in the new jazz garden. Then you hit repeat. Repeat again. Then you remember there are four more songs and the garden bursts with color. Comprised of two ...

Michelle Coltrane: Awakening

By DAN BILAWSKY

Yes, that Coltrane. Vocalist Michelle Coltrane, the offspring of pianist Alice McLeod (and vocalist Kenny Hagood) and the stepdaughter of saxophone icon John Coltrane, has one of the strongest musical pedigrees around. She was, quite literally, born and raised into musical legend. But her background and lineage hasn't put undue pressure on her development or musical ...

Planetary Prince

By CAMERON GRAVES

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Satania Our Solar System; Planetary Prince; El Diablo; Adam & Eve; The End of Corporatism; Andromeda; Isle of Love; The Lucifer Rebellion.

Miles Mosley: Uprising

By ANDREA MURGIA

La prima metà del 2017 si è rivelata veramente pienissima per i musicisti che gravitano attorno a Kamasi Washington. Dopo il ritorno di Thundercat, l'esordio di suo fratello Ronald Bruner Jr., l'opera prima di Cameron Graves e il ritorno roboante di Kendrick Lamar è il turno ora di Miles Mosley. Bassista, contrabbassista e cantante (notevole) nonché ...

Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince

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 ...

Planetary Prince

By CAMERON GRAVES

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: The Planetary Prince; Andromeda; Isle of Love; Adam & Eve.