Cameron Graves

As a group member, session musician, and leader, progressive jazz pianist and composer Cameron Graves has been a central figure in the Los Angeles jazz scene since the early 2000s. His father is Carl Graves, who in 1974 scored a Top 20 R&B hit with "Baby, Hang Up the Phone," and later joined Oingo Boingo. That band is responsible for Cameron's first credit, as one of the backing vocalists -- beside brother and future recording partner Taylor -- on the 1994 album Boingo. A greater development for the pianist occurred later at L.A.'s Locke High School, where he crossed paths wit...