Miles Okazaki

Miles Okazaki (born 1974) is an American guitarist and composer. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Okazaki is currently assistant professor of jazz guitar at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Okazaki was born in Pullman, Washington in 1974. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest, in Port Townsend, Washington. 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.

• Mirror (2006) with Dan Weiss, Christof Knoche, Jon Flaugher, Miguel Zenon, David Binney, and Chris Potter
• Generations (2009) with Dan Weiss, Christof Knoche, Jon Flaugher, Miguel Zenon, David Binney, and Jen Shyu
• Figurations (2012) with Dan Weiss, Miguel Zenon, and Thomas Morgan (Live at the Jazz Gallery, NYC)