Miles Okazaki

Miles Okazaki ( born December 18, 1974 in Pullman, Washington) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

Life and work

Okazaki grew up in Port Townsend to the northwest of the United States. From 1997 he lived in New York City, where he. Harvard University, and The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, studied among others, Rodney Jones, Kenny Barron, Manny Albam and Anthony Davis Since then he has worked in the local jazz scene, inter alia, with Stanley Turrentine, Lenny Pickett, Kenny Barron, Steve Coleman, Jonathan Finlayson, Ohad Talmor and Jane Monheit ( Taking a Chance on Love, 2004). The Thelonious Monk Guitar Competition in 2005 he was a finalist. From the early 2000s he worked as a composer for smaller ensembles. In 2007 he recorded his debut album, Mirror on ( inter alia with Christof Knoche; enlarged ensemble ( inter alia with David Binney and vocalist Jen Shyu was born in 2008 Generations In its production Figurations ( Sunnyside, 2012), he played with Miguel Zenón. , Thomas Morgan and Dan Weiss. He lives in Brooklyn.