CAMERON GRAVES

Cameron Graves is a classically trained pianist with hybrid influences from jazz, world and modern styles of music. The son of Carl Graves (Oingo Boingo), Cameron's music career began at an early age when his gift of perfect pitch and Los Angeles-based education quickly accelerated him into a professional working environment.

Cameron is well known for his unique rhythmic and dexterous approach to the piano. His years studying the Hindustani Tabla drum at UCLA opened new areas of expression on the piano that sets him apart.

His production and composition achievements range from Major Motion Pictures "Amistad" and "Billy Madison" to Commercial campaigns for Nike Jordan and Reebok, to Television shows including Soul Food, The Human Contract, and TNT’s Hawthorne, as well as recording for Walt Disney Studio’s “Food Songs & Mickey Unwrapped” with Randy Newman.

Cameron performs worldwide and records with a wide range of artists including Jada Pinkett Smith, Stanley Clarke, Dr. Dre, Christina Aguilera, The West Coast Get Down, Vanessa Williams, Leon Ware, Jhene Aiko, and Thundercat.

A member of the game-changing, genre-blurring Los Angeles collective, the West Coast Get Down, pianist CAMERON GRAVES is taking the modern jazz scene by storm. Graves’ style was described by his fellow West Coast Get Down member, Kamasi Washington, as an “almost unbelievable combination of modal jazz, romantic era European classical music, and mathematical death metal.”

Graves’ debut record on Mack Avenue Records, Planetary Prince, which also serves as Graves’ pseudonym, comes from The Urantia Book,a spiritual tome that emerged from Chicago in the first half of the 20th century and that purports to reveal the truth of humanity through a combination of spiritual and cosmological ideas, including radical retellings of familiar stories from the Bible.

This release marked a seismic shift in the jazz landscape and the game-changing arrival of the genre-blurring Los Angeles collective West Coast Get Down blending elements of Jazz, Classical, Rock and Hip-Hop.

The core of the band on Planetary Prince is made up of fellow West Coast Get Down members, 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 members of the groundbreaking modern L.A. Jazz scene.