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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

Album

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.

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Server Farm

Label: Irrabagast
Released: 2025
Track listing: Colocation; Routers; Singularities; Graceful Exit; Spy.

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Of the Near and Far

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Antlia; Aquarius; Andromeda; Citlalli; Lyra; Aquila; When You Stare Into the Abyss.

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Unclassified Affections

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.

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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.

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Article: Album Review

Ye Olde 2: Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time

Read "Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Ten years after the first Ye Olde (Yestereve Records, 2015) was framed around a fantasy quest into a riotous Brooklyn guitar summit, trombonist extraordinaire Jacob Garchik returns with Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time, a 48-minute sci-fi prog jazz odyssey stretching from the heat death of the universe to the resurrection of consciousness itself. ...

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Article: Album Review

Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far

Read "Of the Near and Far" reviewed by John Sharpe


Vibraphonist Patricia Brennan continues to redefine her creative horizons on Of The Near And Far, a fourth leadership date that expands her sonic blueprint without tempering the imagination that has marked her rise. Each of its predecessors has been completely different, from the horn-rich Breaking Stretch (Pyroclastic, 2024), to the percussion-centered More Touch (Pyroclastic, 2022), to ...

Article: Album Review

Patricia Brennan: Of the Near and Far

Read "Of the Near and Far" reviewed 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. ...

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Article: Album Review

Henry Threadgill: Listen Ship

Read "Listen Ship" reviewed 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 ...


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