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Miles Okazaki
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Miles Okazaki, the son of a painter and photographer, grew up in the Pacific Northwest in the small city of Port Townsend. He began to experiment with the guitar at the age of six, and remains a primarily self-taught musician. As a teenager, he was recognized with many awards for exceptional achievements in Music and Visual Art.
Okazaki's formal studies were at Harvard University, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School. He has pursued a variety of subjects, including Visual Arts, Literature and Language, Mathematics, and Music. He has toured and recorded with a wide variety of artists, including Stanley Turrentine, Lenny Pickett, Samir Chatterjee, Jane Monheit, Jen Shyu, Dan Weiss, David Binney, and others.
Recently, Okazaki has focused primarily on composing and studying improvisational concepts
Listen Ship
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; IJ; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R.
Server Farm
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Irrabagast
Released: 2025
Track listing: Colocation; Routers; Singularities; Graceful Exit; Spy.
Of the Near and Far
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Antlia; Aquarius; Andromeda; Citlalli; Lyra; Aquila; When You Stare Into the Abyss.
Unclassified Affections
By Dan Weiss
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Unclassified Affections; Holotype; Perfection’s Loneliness; Mansions of Madness; Consoled without Consolations; Existence Ticket; Plusgood; Dead Wall Revelry.
Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time
Label: Yestereve Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: One Can Only Go Up; Transcending Time; Caro Ortolano; Exo Microbiology; Dyson Spheres; Von
Neumann Probes; Omega Point; Ye Olde vs Simulacrus; Floating Brain.
Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far
by Angelo Leonardi
In un paio d'anni, Patricia Brennan è balzata ai vertici del jazz più innovativo. Se già il magistrale e pluripremiato Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic Records, 2024) era un salto avanti rispetto ai precedenti More Touch (Pyroclastic Records, 2022) e Maquishti, stavolta la vibrafonista d'origine messicana presenta un'opera ancor più sorprendente, cambiando organico in un'esplorazione ambiziosa e audace. ...
Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship
by Giuseppe Segala
As in other recent works, on Listen Ship Henry Threadgill appears solely as composer and conductor. No surprise there: his works vividly showcase a quest for a personal compositional dimension, one that reflects his drive for authenticity while engaging in dialogue, proposing a possible intersection between Black American musical traditions and other musical realms. This is ...
Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far
by Mike Jurkovic
Peerless, vibe-savvy vibraphonist Patricia Brennan minces no fools from the get go, launching Of The Near And Far with the kick-ass lead single (singles? They still make singles? In this day? In this age?) “Antilla." A new jazz standard by any stretch of the imagination, “Antilla" is a sleek, hypnotic beauty that gears you into the ...
Gregg Belisle-Chi: Slow Crawl: Performing the Music of Tim Berne
by Mark Corroto
Guitarist Gregg Belisle-Chi's story mirrors that of saxophonist Tim Berne, which makes Slow Crawl all the more compelling. Berne's own musical journey began when he was so moved by Julius Hemphill's Dogon A.D. (Mbari, 1972) that he relocated to New York to study directly with the master. Decades later, Belisle-Chi had a similar experience in Seattle ...
