Miles Okazaki
{{short description|American jazz guitarist and composer (born 1974)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Miles Okazaki
| image =
| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|12|18}}
| birth_place = Port Townsend, Washington, U.S.
| genre = Jazz
| occupation = Musician
| instrument = Guitar
| years_active =1990s–present
| label =
| associated_acts = Jane Monheit, Steve Coleman
| website = {{URL|milesokazaki.com}}
}}
Miles Okazaki (born 1974) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.{{cite web |last1=Jurek |first1=Thom |title=Miles Okazaki |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/miles-okazaki-mn0000957817/biography |website=AllMusic |accessdate=24 June 2019}} Okazaki is a lecturer of jazz guitar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Miles Okazaki {{!}} U-M School of Music|url=https://smtd.umich.edu/about/faculty-profiles/miles-okazaki/|archiveurl=|archivedate=|accessdate=2020-10-21|website=}}
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.
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)
- Thisness (Pi Recordings, 2022)
=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
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External links
- [http://www.milesokazaki.com Official site]
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Category:People from Pullman, Washington
Category:American musicians of Japanese descent
Category:University of Michigan faculty
Category:Sunnyside Records artists
Category:Pi Recordings artists
Category:Jazz musicians from Washington (state)
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