Photos
Bologna, 2017 (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Solo concert, Noguchi Museum
with Aka Moon, Belgium
Phalanx
with Rodney Jones
with Amir ElSaffar, Brooklyn
with Rajna Swaminathan's Rajas, Cornelia St. Cafe
with Sean Rickman, Village Vanguard
Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Village Vanguard May 2017 (live recording)
On the mic (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Rhythm (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Trickster, Brooklyn (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Jumpstart on the way to a gig, NYC, with Sean Rickman (Photo by Jonathan Finlayson)
Faculty concert with Vijay Iyer, Banff, Alberta (Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith, Miles Okazaki, Tyshawn Sorey, Yosvany Terry, Somi, Imani Izuri, Linda Oh, Zakir Hussein)
at SF Jazz
Thanking the audience, Ghent (photo by Rudy Carlier)
Recording Steve Coleman's 'Synovial Joints' (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Chess on tour with Dan Weiss, Europe
Banff faculty concert, 2015
with Kokayi and Anthony Tidd, Paris
with Mary Halvorson, Drew Gress, and Tomas Fujiwara
Five Elements, Massachusetts
Banff faculty concert, 2012
with Guillaume Perret, Damion Reid, Geneva (Photo by Juan-Carlos Hernandez)
Recording Generations (2008)
Miles Okazaki Quartet with Mark Turner, North Sea Jazz Festival (Photo by Eddy Westveer)
Miles Okazaki Percussion Ensemble, Subculture, NYC
with Michael Erlewine and Steve Coleman, Michigan
Recording Mirror, Systems Two, Brooklyn
with Nels Cline
with George Benson, 1998
with Jane Monheit band, Blue Note, NYC
Okazaki / Zenón Quintet, The C-Note, NYC, 1999
1977
Trickster, Oktaven Studio, March Equinox 2021
Solo, Ottawa
Trickster, Cleveland
At the board with Ryan Streber, March 2021
Photo by John Rogers
with David Gilmore and Jerome Harris
Backstage with Mary Halvorson
with Bill Frisell, Melbourne
Village Vanguard kitchen, with Steve Coleman (photo by Jonathan Finlayson, 2018)
with Jonathan Finlayson, Amsterdam
Five Elements + Ravi Coltrane, San Sebastian
John Zorn Bagatelles, curtain call, Paris
with Rajna Swaminathan, Cambridge (concert with Okazaki artwork projections)
with Craig Taborn (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Duo with Dan Weiss, Cornelia St. Cafe, NYC
with Darcy James Argue, Newport Jazz Festival
In concert, the Jazz Gallery (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
with Zakir Hussain, Banff 2015
with Ohad Talmor and Dan Weiss, Portugal
with Linda Oh (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Lecture on rhythm at Amsterdam Conservatory
Recording with Dan Weiss
Steve Coleman and Five Elements at The Stone, 2014
with faculty at the University of Michigan (Benny Green, Robert Hurst III, Andrew Bishop)
In concert, Paris
Recording Dan Weiss' 'Jhaptal Drumset Solo'
with Mary Halvorson, Drew Gress, and Tomas Fujiwara, Quebec
Solo guitar concert at SEEDS, Brooklyn
with Michael Kanan and Ethan Iverson
with Rodney Jones
with Bobby Broom, Chicago
with George Freeman, Chicago
with Rick Montalbano, Birdland, NYC
with Herbie Hancock
Rocky Mount NC, near Thelonious Monk's birthplace
Trickster rehearsal, March 2021
San Sebastian, Spain
with John Clayton
Mastering The Sky Below with Max Ross
with Craig Taborn, Peter Evans
with Jonathan Finlayson's ‘Sicilian Defense’, Warsaw
with Selva Ganesh, Anupam Shobhakar, and Dan Weiss, at the Jazz Gallery NYC
D'Angelico Showroom, NYC
Adam Rudolph's Guitar Orchestra (Nublu, NYC)
with Jonathan Finlayson, Los Angeles (Photo by Anthony Tidd)
Village Vanguard, May 2017
with Steve Coleman's ‘Council of Balance’, Rotterdam
with Sean Rickman, Genova, Italy
with Rajna and Anjna Swaminatham, Lincoln Center
Solo, Ghent (photo by Rudy Carlier)
Recording Amir ElSaffar's 'Rivers of Sound'
with Jonathan Finlayson, Ivory Coast (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Blue Whale, Los Angeles
with Kenny Barron
In concert, NYC
Practicing with Steve Coleman, Chicago (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
with Steve Coleman, Brazil (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Adam Rudolph's Guitar Orchestra, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn
Playing drums with Kenny Barron on bass and Jason Stewart on piano
with Steve Coleman and Jen Shyu, Copenhagen (Photo by Jonathan Finlayson)
with Walter Smith III
with David Gilmore and Steve Coleman, The Stone, NYC
with David Gilmore
with Charlie Hunter
with Michael Townsend (first guitar teacher)
Village Vanguard, NYC
with Wayne Shorter
With Rodney Jones, Eric Alexander, Bernard Purdie, Jimmy McGriff, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Rudy Van Gelder, Bob Porter, Seleno Clark, George Benson, and others (1999)
Thelonious Monk Guitar Competition
Guitars and amps for Trickster equinox sessions, March 20, 2021, Oktaven Studios
Changing strings in Strasbourg (photo by Patrick Lambin)
Paris (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
with Dan Weiss, The Stone, NYC (Photo by John Rogers)
with Sean Rickman, Trickster Equinox sessions, 2021
Trickster, Vancouver
Trickster, Los Angeles
with Tomeka Reid, Tomas Fujiwara, Mary Halvorson
with Mary Halvorson Quartet, Canada
with Mary Halvorson, Sarajevo
with Umayalpuram K. Sivaraman, Belgium
with Liberty Ellman, Stephan Crump and Damion Reid (tribute to Pat Metheny, NYC)
End of a long tour — Five Elements, Buffalo, NY
with Steve Coleman and Five Elements, Village Vanguard, 2015
Village Vanguard, 2016
John Zorn's premiere Bagatelles marathon concert, with Zorn, Tyshawn Sorey, Trevor Dunn, Marc Ribot, Julian Lage, Uri Caine, Mary Halvorson, Drew Gress, Gyan Riley, Trigger, Craig Taborn, Tomas Fujiwara, Calvin Weston, John Medeski, Dave Fiuczynski
Matt Mitchell's ‘Phalanx Ambassadors’ at The Stone
Rehearsal (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Playing a microtonal guitar with Amir ElSaffar, Abu Dhabi
Drums in Africa (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
with Kenny Barron and Benny Green, Monk's birthday concert
Jimmy Glass Club, Valencia, Spain
Five Elements at the Jazz Gallery
Recording Adam Rudolph's 'Turning Toward the Light'
with Anthony Tidd, Ivory Coast (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Miles Okazaki Quartet, Brooklyn
Kanjira lesson with Ganesh Kumar
Miles Okazaki Quartet with Donny McCaslin, Duc De Lombards, Paris (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Shapeshifter Lab, Brookyn, with Christof Knoche
Recording Mirror (2005)
with Jerome Harris
with Liberty Ellman
Duo with Dan Weiss, The Knitting Factory, NYC
Rio De Janeiro
Transcribing, New Orleans, 1994
Recording setup at Samurai Studios for The Sky Below
with Kenny Barron and Benny Green, Monk's birthday 2019, SF Jazz
Mike Marciano at the board, duo album with Dan Weiss
Photo by John Rogers
Trickster, Brooklyn
with Dave Fiuczynski
with Mark Turner, Belgium
At the Jazz Gallery (photo by New York Times)
Goofing with Zafer Tawil, NYC
Before solo concert in Strasbourg (photo by Patrick Lambin)
Recording with Steve Coleman and Five Elements at Systems Two Studios, Joe Marciano, Seth Rosner and Yulun Wang
Theaster Gates' Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago
Jonathan Finlayson's ‘Sicilian Defense’, 2016, NYC
Dan Weiss' ‘Fourteen’ at the Jazz Gallery
Jonathan Finlayson's ‘Sicilian Defense’
At the Met Breuer with Vijay Iyer, Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan, Maria Grand, and Stephan Crump
In Bryant Park with Jonathan Finlayson's ‘Sicilian Defense’ (2016)
Playing drums with Steve Coleman, Philadelphia
Recording Figurations live at the Jazz Gallery (Photo by Jimmy Katz)
Banff faculty, 2012
Recording Steve Coleman's 'Functional Arrhythmias'
with Kenny Barron Quintet at Dizzy's Club, NYC
with Anthony Tidd, Brazil (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Five Elements with Doug Hammond, Austria
Generations Septet at the Jazz Gallery, 2009
Recording Dan Weiss' 'Fourteen'
Photo by Jimmy Katz
with Ari Hoenig, Undead Festival, NYC
Duo with Jen Shyu, The Stone, NYC
with Henry Johnson, Chicago
with Mike Allemana, Chicago
In concert, Europe
Recording Dan Weiss' ‘Tintal Drumset Solo’
La Push, WA, early '80s
Solo, Ghent (photo by Rudy Carlier)
Trickster Equinox Sessions control room, with Ron Saint Germain and Ryan Streber, Oktaven Studios
Recording duo album with Dan Weiss (Mike Marciano, engineer), Samurai Hotel Studios
Solo guitar, Norway
Recording John Zorn's Bagatelles, Mary Halvorson Quartet, East Side Sound
with Ben Monder
Manhattanhenge with Jonathan Finlayson
with Joey Baron
Trickster, The Jazz Gallery, 2018
with Tyshawn Sorey, Paris
Paris (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Brooklyn, NY (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
Village Vanguard, with Anthony Tidd, Andy Milne, Vijay Iyer, Sophia Wong, Ralph Alessi, Jonathan Finlayson, Jen Shyu, Steve Coleman, and Sean Rickman
At The Stone with Neeraj Mehta, Linda Oh, Mark Turner, Jonathan Finlayson, Steve Coleman, Matt Brewer
with Amir ElSaffar's ‘Rivers of Sound’ ensemble, Abu Dhabi
Old and new M-BASE, Village Vanguard: Anthony Tidd, Steve Coleman, James Weidman, Lonnie Plaxico, Bradley Jones, Miles Okazaki, David Gilmore, Greg Osby, Andy Milne, Jonathan Finlayson, (Sean Rickman in front, Seth Rosner in the background right)
with Sean Rickman, Jonathan Finlayson, Los Angeles
with Steve Coleman, the Whitney Museum
Blue Whale, Los Angeles
Millenium Park, Chicago
with Liberty Ellman and David Gilmore, Alternative Guitar Festival
Salvador Do Bahia, Brazil (Photo by Dimitri Louis)
with Steve Coleman and Jonathan Finlayson at The Stone, NYC
with Steve Coleman, Paris, Son D'Hiver Festival
with the Juilliard A.D. Ensemble
Miles Okazaki Quartet with Ben Wendel at the Jazz Gallery
Practicing with Steve Coleman, Philadelphia
Miles Okazaki Quartet, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn (Photo by Stephanie Ahn)
Workshop at SEEDS, Brooklyn
with Damion Reid and Guillaume Perret, Kenny’s Castaways, NYC
with Perry Hughes, Baker's Keyboard Lounge, Detroit
with Scott Hesse, Chicago
with Ben Gerstein, 55 Bar, NYC
with Lena Horne
Pullman, WA, late '70s