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.
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, 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 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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External links Official site