Mike Cameron is a freelance saxophonist, composer and educator based in Tulsa, OK specializing in improvisation that spans many musical genres. He leads and writes original music for the Mike Cameron Collective, the nine-piece funk band Count Tutu, and the Swunky Face Big Band. He has had the opportunity to perform professionally with The Tulsa Symphony, Ethan Iverson, The Count Basie Orchestra, The Temptations, Frank Sinatra, Jr., Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and has performed at the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival in 2015 and 2019 in Aruba.

As leader of the "Mike Cameron Collective" he has hosted weekly jazz residencies in Tulsa clubs since 2012 at Low Down Jazz Club, Vintage Wine Bar, Hodges Bend (God rest her soul), MixCo, Cellar Dweller, and the Colony where he features modern jazz and a rotation of musicians from across the state. In addition to performing his own music he often produces ‘album nights’ where the Collective performs classic jazz albums in their entirety, records such as “Giant Steps,” “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” “Round Midnight,” and Cannonball Adderley’s “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Cameron has released two solo albums “Equality” (2024) and “Michael Cameron Quartet” (2010) and is featured soloist on multiple commercial releases including “Hands Up” (Count Tutu, 2022), "Head Radio: A Tribute to Radiohead" (ESC Records, Germany, 2012), "American Byways: The Music of Michael Daugherty (Equilibrium Records, US, 2012), "Spinning Plates of Jazz" (Rebecca Ungerman, self produced, 2011).

As an educator Cameron was the Director of Jazz Studies at Northeastern State University from 2022-2023 where he taught jazz theory and improvisation, composition, recording engineering, applied jazz and classical saxophone, and large ensemble, where he prepared the students to perform with Guggenheim “Genius” Grant award winner Miguel Zenon at the Green Country Jazz Festival. He has lived, studied and worked as a musician in Chicago, London, New York City, and most recently Boston, where he earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at New England Conservatory of Music.