Miles Okazaki


Miles Okazaki is an American jazz guitarist and composer. Okazaki is a lecturer of jazz guitar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Early life

Okazaki grew up in Port Townsend, Washington. When he was six, he began lessons on classical guitar. From a young age he was exposed to music and art, primarily because his mother was a painter and his father was a photography professor at Washington State University.

Discography

As leader

  • Mirror
  • I Like Too Much with Partipilo, Dan Weiss – live recorded in 2007
  • Generations
  • Figurations
  • Trickster
  • Work Volumes 1–6
  • The Sky Below
  • Trickster's Dream
  • ''Thisness''

    As sideman or guest

With Steve Coleman
With Jane Monheit
With others