Guitarist Miles Okazaki's Figurations is a fascinating document of how musical invention takes place on the spur of the moment. It is not a mad conglomeration of notes that come out in jagged clusters ...

In the backyard of his home in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, guitarist Miles Okazaki has spent time constructing a multifaceted backyard/garden filled with overhanging plants, stone walkways and a wooden ...

Miles Okazaki came to the attention of the wider world last year, when he released Work, a 70-track, almost five-hour-long collection of Thelonious Monk’s music, arranged for solo guitar. (An ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Available July 19, 2024 via Cygnus Recordings, the album offers a serpentine ...

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews two new interpretations of Monk's complete works: Monk's Dreams, by pianist Frank Kimbrough, and Work, by guitarist Miles Okazaki. This is FRESH AIR. Two new ...

Catch the full Melbourne International Jazz Festival set this week from US guitarist Miles Okazaki. Recorded at The Jazzlab, Okazaki is heard showcasing his latest solo guitar project - focusing of ...

With startling creativity and precision, guitarist Miles Okazaki has for the past eight years helped define Five Elements, a band led by alto saxophonist Steve Coleman that has deepened the ...

PORT TOWNSEND — For his first live performance in his hometown in two decades, guitarist Miles Okazaki will offer a night of the music he finds forever new. It’s “very accessible, but at the same time ...

After years of working as a vocalist in the realm of R&B and gospel, Seattle-born, Yakima-raised singer Oleta Adams returns with Let’s Stay Here, her first proper full-length in nearly eight years.

If your musical taste is all-embracing, there’s definitely room in your broad church for the gritty, bluesy one-man-band grooves of Son of Dave, who’s best-known in these parts as Benjamin Darvill, ...