Miles Okazaki

Miles Okazaki
Born	(1974-12-18) December 18, 1974 (age 50) Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.
Genres	Jazz
Occupation	Musician
Instrument	Guitar
Years active	1990s–present
Website	milesokazaki.com

Miles Okazaki (born 1974) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.^[1] Okazaki is a lecturer of jazz guitar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.^[2]

Early life

Okazaki grew up in Port Townsend, Washington.^[1] When he was six, he began lessons on classical guitar.^[1] 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.

Discography

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 Recordings, 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)

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)

References

1. Jurek, Thom. "Miles Okazaki". AllMusic. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
2. "Miles Okazaki | U-M School of Music". Retrieved 2020-10-21.

External links

• Official site