Miles Okazaki (born 1974) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Okazaki is a lecturer of jazz guitar at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

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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 Washington State University (Washington State, WSU, or informally Wazzu) is a public land-grant research university with its flagship, and oldest, campus in Pullman, Washington. Founded in 1890, WSU is also one of the oldest land-grant unive ...

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 Steve Coleman (born September 20, 1956) is an American saxophonist, composer, bandleader and music theorist. In 2014, he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Early life Steve Coleman was born and grew up in South Side, Chicago. He started playing al ...

* ''Functional Arrhythmias'' (Pi, 2013) * ''Synovial Joints'' (Pi, 2015) * ''Live at the Village Vanguard Vol. I'' (Pi, 2018) With

Jane Monheit Jane Monheit (born November 3, 1977"Jane Monheit." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 33. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2001. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, 2017-05-07.) is an American jazz and pop singer. Early life Monheit was b ...

* ''Taking a Chance on Love'' (Sony Classical, 2004) * ''The Season'' (Epic, 2005) * ''Surrender'' (Concord, 2007) With others *

Jesse Malin Jesse Malin (born January 26, 1967) is an American rock musician, guitarist, and songwriter. Starting his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, and rising to prominence as vocalist of D Generation, a solo recording artis ...

, ''The Heat'' (One Little Indian, 2004) * Matt Mitchell, ''Phalanx Ambassadors'' (Pi, 2019) *

Adam Rudolph Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media. In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for t ...

, ''Turning Towards the Light'' (Cuneiform, 2015) *

Tessa Souter Tessa Souter is a jazz singer, songwriter and writer. Early life Tessa Souter was born in London to a Trinidadian father and an English mother. She studied piano, then at the age of twelve taught herself how to play guitar. At sixteen she ran ...

, ''Listen Love'' (Nara Music, 2004) *

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...

-Mary Halvorson Quartet, ''Paimon: Book of Angels Volume 32'' (Tzadik, 2017)

References

External links

Official site
1974 births Living people People from Pullman, Washington American musicians of Japanese descent University of Michigan faculty Sunnyside Records artists Pi Recordings artists Jazz musicians from Washington (state) {{US-jazz-guitarist-stub