Cameron Graves: Seven

Piano - Cameron Graves

Pianist, composer and vocalist Cameron Graves calls the music he's created for his new Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group release, thrash jazz, but that's just the beginning of the story. Yes, on first listen, the concentrated Seven's metal force and hardcore precision can blow you away. After all, Graves grew up in metal-heavy Los Angeles, headbanged to Living Colour as a kid, and after years of jazz and classical music years of jazz and classical studies, he discovered his love for hard rock through records by Pantera, Slipknot and his deepest metal influence, Swedish high-flyers Meshuggah, new But listen to Seven, Graves' follow-up to 2017's Planetary Prince (which Pitchfork called a "rousing debut"), more closely. "Los Angeles is a melting pot of everything," Graves points out. His father, Carl Graves, was a great soul singer, and you his footsteps, along with those of Marvin Gaye and Otis Redding, on "Eternal Paradise," which marks the young Graves' vocal debut. Throughout the album throughout the album, the generation of jazz-rock fusion pioneers of the 1970s is a source of Inspiration "Our mission is to continue the legacy of progressive music that was ushered in by bands such as Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, and Return to Forever ," Graves says. "That was instilled in us by the masters. Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock - these guys sat with us and told us, 'Look, Man, you've got to keep this going.'"

Price: $29.98