Miles Okazaki

Miles Okazaki is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and teacher based in New York City. Known for a versatile, rhythmic approach to improvisation and composition, he is a first-call sideman and collaborator. As a leader his second album, 2009's Generations, earned accolades from critics and musicians for his unusual phrasing and uncommon compositional style. After 2013's live Figurations, Okazaki joined Jonathan Finlayson's Sicilian Defense and Steve Coleman's Five Elements. Okazaki recorded Trickster, his Pi Recordings debut, in 2017; it won acclaim across the internationa...