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Miles Okazaki

Born: December 18, 1974

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.

Boomtown

By Miles Okazaki

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Magic Hour; Boomtown Girl; Thermopolis; Diamondville; Hole in the Wall; Spotted Horse; Bighorn; Recluse Road; Ten Sleep; Grand Prismatic; Devils Tower; Ghost Town Girl.

Focus Out

By Jon Irabagon

Label: Irabbagast
Released: 2026
Track listing: Morning Star; Focus Out; Paper Planes; Evening Star; Indigo Stains; Prayer (for Reomi); Center Post.

Nicole Mitchell, Brandon Sanders, Satoko Fujii, Miles Okazaki and remembering Alan "Chip" White

by Hobart Taylor
November 11, 2026

Debut from Japan's Tamami Koyake, saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu, Jane Ira Bloom's latest and Finland's Kannaste 4. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Miles Okazaki “ Thermopolis" from Boomtown (Pi) 01:35 Nicole Mitchell/Joe Westerlund “Amber Waves" from Written in the Universe (Psychic Hotline) 09:05 Host Speaks 15:41 Chip White “Another Planet" from Harlem Sunset (Postcards) 17:37 Tamami ...

L'avventuroso mondo di Patricia Brennan

by Angelo Leonardi
November 9, 2026

La presenza di Patricia Brennan ai vertici del jazz più innovativo è il risultato di un percorso artistico in costante evoluzione. Vibrafonista e compositrice di origine messicana, Brennan si è affermata negli ultimi anni come una delle personalità più originali della scena contemporanea. La sua musica mette in relazione una ricerca strumentale audace, una scrittura articolata ...

Miles Okazaki: Boomtown

by Vincenzo Roggero
October 26, 2026

Come nel precedente, apprezzato Miniature America (Cygnus Recordings, 2024) il chitarrista e compositore Miles Okazaki è alla guida di una formazione di ben dieci elementi ma con una differenza non da poco, al posto delle tre voci femminili si raddoppiano contrabbasso e trombone e si aggiunge la batteria, riunendo alcuni dei musicisti più in vista della ...

Miles Okazaki's Monkathon: The Complete Thelonious Monk–Live

by Keith Flint
October 10, 2026

Guitarist Miles Okazaki, originally from Port Townsend, Washington, has become an integral figure in New York's creative music scene. Over the course of his career, he has toured and recorded with such artists as Kenny Barron, John Zorn, Steve Coleman, Miguel Zenón, Henry Threadgill, Patricia Brennan, Dan Weiss, Matt Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, and Darcy James Argue. ...

Elsa Nilsson, Miles Okazaki, and Andrew Cyrille

by Jerome Wilson
September 9, 2026

This program features recent music by Elsa Nilsson and Miles Okazaki and older work by Terje Rypdal and Andrew Cyrille.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Tom Ollendorff “Meaningless Mirror" from Where in the World (Fresh ...

2026 New Releases, Part 1

by Jon Greenbaum
August 1, 2026

These kinds of lists are like a mirror; our aesthetic preferences reflect back to us who we are. This list is saying I-don't-care-much-for-walking-bass-or-the-accepted-conventions-of-the-jazz-tradition. I don't want to accept that truth. I want to love The Tradition. And in my defense of my fealty to straight ahead jazz I will say that I just got ...

Paper Planes

July 31, 2026

Album: Focus Out
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Irabbagast
Released: 2026
Duration: 4:51