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10 New Artists You Need to Know: March 2017
03.15.17
Planetary Prince presents all the essentials: a classically poised introduction, a writhing beat equally beholden to slick funk and prog-metal, serpentine electric bass lines, and lean, tight jazz-combo interaction.
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Cameron Graves Planetary Prince [Pitchfork]
03.05.17
Cameron Graves, the pianist for Kamasi Washington and a founding member of the West Coast Get Down collective, makes his own searing mark with an enrapturing and assured solo album.
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Cameron Graves “Planetary Prince”
02.26.17
From drums & bass through to trumpet, every instrument is performed with virtuosity & sounds crisper than a granny smith – this is electrifyingly, skin-pricklingly brilliant.
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Cameron Graves Is LA’s Cosmic Metalhead Jazz Prince and We Have His New Song
02.13.17
Graves has been playing music for over three decades, bringing a unique approach to the piano. His skill is matched by a fluid, imaginative style drawing from multiple genres. Graves' father, a singer/producer/keyboard player, initiated him into music at the age of four.
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Cameron Graves Planetary Prince
12.05.17
Cameron Graves is a master, laying intricate melodic lines over driving drums and cymbal chokes. “Satania Our Solar System,” the opener, is devilish.
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Cameron Graves – Planetary Prince
01.02.18
"Thrilling technicality, earnest passion and an acute sense of style justify even the record’s over-the-top moments. Planetary Prince is an 80-minute explosion of musical ideas that reflects the musicians’ decades of prior collaboration.”
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Cameron Graves, Planetary Prince Album Release, The Troubadour
03.25.17
Last week, it was pianist Cameron Graves turn to front this band of one/band of many, for the drop of his stellar CD, “Planetary Prince” on Mack Avenue Records (disclaimer, more astronomical adjectives could follow).
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Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince review – Kamasi Washington’s pianist cranks it up
03.09.17
His contrastingly romantic and ardent chord-work suggest what Rachmaninoff might have sounded like if he’d played in a contemporary fusion band.
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Cameron Graves: Planetary Prince review – Kamasi Washington’s pianist cranks it up
03.13.17
Cameron Graves' debut release embodies a forward looking, jazz-grounded instrumental music. He leads us on a challenging and intoxicating musical journey of imagination.
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Hey! Listen to Cameron Graves!
02.27.17
If the sheer virtuosic piano work isn’t enough for you, the lineup backing Cameron Graves on Planetary Prince will more than make up for that. Besides the obvious talent of Kamasi Washington on tenor, there’s also Thundercat and Hadrien Faraud rocking the bass.
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If You Thought Kamasi Washington Got Cosmic, Wait ‘Til You Hear Cameron Graves
03.01.17
"It comes off somewhere between McCoy Tyner and The Time, Chopin and J Dilla — with an extra layer of mystic clashes between celestial princes of good and evil. It’s the score that Urantia always deserved.” - LA Weekly
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Los Angeles’s Thriving Jazz Scene Produces Four New Albums
03.10.17
Cameron Graves, ‘Planetary Prince’ - If you’re looking for another fix of the same stuff that “The Epic” delivered, the debut album from the pianist Cameron Graves is your answer.
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New Jazz Releases from Alex Cline and Cameron Graves Draw on Spiritual Inspiration
03.20.17
His compositions drill down into grooves and then suddenly spring open, like the stunning “Satania” and the herky funk of “End of Corporatism.”
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West Coast Get Down, El Rey Theatre (feat. Cameron Graves)
02.06.17
Pianist Cameron Graves was a standout, and his album “Planetary Prince”, featuring more of the Get Down, will be out in the coming weeks. Mosley’s parents also got a big shout before launching into “Abraham” (Mosley’s given first name), the record’s other single, with Graves’ “ring tone intro” setting off the piece.
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