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Miles Okazaki: Generations

Read "Generations" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 12, 2009

Myriad ideas collide and interact on Miles Okazaki's follow-up to Mirror: his latest offering, Generations. These ideas span not only musical forms and concepts but also cultures--from Indian to European and American. The music also leaps across various artistic disciplines--philosophical, mathematical and visual--to render one central ostensible idea: that all sound is an experience shaped by ...

Article: My Playlist

Miles Okazaki

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 6, 2007

01. J.S. Bach - Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, performed by Arthur Grumiaux (Philips - 1994). Cerco di esercitarmi con questi brani tutti i giorni ed ogni volta sono nello stesso tempo sconfitto e ispirato da loro. La registrazione di Grumiaux è pura, non stilizzata ed onesta, idealmente adatta per essere eseguita insieme ad una ...

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Miles Okazaki: Mirror

by Budd Kopman
June 7, 2007

For many people, jazz represents in music the fulcrum of the scale that balances the attraction between body and mind. This continuum allows for a “big tent" approach, whereby one can find a place that is comfortable and expand out if one desires. Mirror, guitarist Miles Okazaki's self-produced debut release, has all the ...

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Article: Live Review

Miles Okazaki at the Jazz Gallery

by Budd Kopman
April 21, 2007

Miles OkazakiJazz GalleryNew York, NYThursday, April 12, 2007 The Jazz Gallery is a small place which offers the audience intimacy in a low key setting. Although Miles Okazaki's album Mirror has been available for a while, this gig was for its official release. The lineup is basically the same as ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Miles Okazaki

by AAJ Staff
February 8, 2007

Meet Miles Okazaki:Miles Okazaki lives in Brooklyn, where he plays guitar, writes music, and draws pictures.Instrument:GuitarTeachers and/or influences?Teachers: Rodney Jones, Ganesh Kumar, Michael Townsend, Steve Coleman, my fellow musicians and friends.Influences: It's a hard question...right now I will say, Melody: J.S. Bach, Wayne Shorter, ...

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Miles Okazaki: Mirror

by John Kelman
December 31, 2006

Sometimes artists' most obvious credentials say little about who they really are. Guitarist Miles Okazaki has been singer Jane Monheit's guitarist since 2002, but anyone who expects Mirror to reflect a similarly standards-heavy inclination will be seriously surprised. Whether or not in a good way depends on one's own predilections, but for those wanting greater breadth ...

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Mirror

By Miles Okazaki

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Theme I; Spiral; Mirror I; Howl; Invention; Theme II; Metamorphosis; Halfway; Momentum; Canon; Theme III; Improvisation; Volcano; Mirror II; Chorale.

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Miles Okazaki: Mirror

Read "Mirror" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
December 1, 2006

Mirror is the culmination of five years of work, and the results are simply outstanding. A finalist in the 2005 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Guitar Competition, Miles Okazaki is an active musician in New York who is involved in a variety of projects, including his regular recording and touring gigs with jazz vocalist Jane Monheit.