Miles Okazaki
Miles Okazaki (born 1974) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Okazaki is a lecturer of jazz guitar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Miles Okazaki
- Name
- Miles Okazaki
- Born
- 18 December 1974
- Birthplace
- Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.
- Occupation
- Musician
- Nationality
- United States
- Fields
- jazz
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Miles Okazaki (nascita: 18 dicembre 1974) figura come chitarrista, musicista e compositore negli archivi di autorità della Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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La nascita di Miles Okazaki è registrata il 18 dicembre 1974 a Pullman, Washington.
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• Name — Miles Okazaki • Born — 18 December 1974 • Birthplace — Port Townsend, Washington, U.S. • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Guitar • Years Active — 1990s–present • Website — milesokazaki.com
Early life
Early life
Okazaki grew up in Port Townsend, Washington. When he was six, he began lessons on classical guitar. From a young age he was exposed to music and art, primarily because his mother was a painter and his father was a photography professor at Washington State University.
As leader
As leader
• Mirror (self-released, 2006) • I Like Too Much with Partipilo, Dan Weiss (Auand, 2008) – live recorded in 2007 • Generations (Sunnyside, 2009) • Figurations (Sunnyside, 2012) • Trickster (Pi, 2017) • Work Volumes 1–6 (The Complete Compositions of Thelonious Monk) (self-released, 2018) • The Sky Below (Pi Recordings, 2019) • Trickster's Dream (self-released, 2020) • Thisness (Pi, 2022) • Boomtown (Pi, 2026)
As sideman or guest
As sideman or guest
With Steve Coleman • Functional Arrhythmias (Pi, 2013) • Synovial Joints (Pi, 2015) • Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. I (Pi, 2018) With Jane Monheit • Taking a Chance on Love (Sony Classical, 2004) • The Season (Epic, 2005) • Surrender (Concord, 2007) With others • Jesse Malin, The Heat (One Little Indian, 2004) • Matt Mitchell, Phalanx Ambassadors (Pi, 2019) • Adam Rudolph, Turning Towards the Light (Cuneiform, 2015) • Tessa Souter, Listen Love (Nara Music, 2004) • John Zorn-Mary Halvorson Quartet, Paimon: Book of Angels Volume 32 (Tzadik, 2017)
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