Ozone biography
Makoto Ozone
Japanese jazz pianist
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At Cosmopolite scene in Christiania in 2017 | |
Born | (1961-03-25) March 25, 1961 (age 63) Kobe, Japan |
Genres | Jazz |
Occupation | Musician |
Instrument | Piano |
Years active | 1976 – present |
Website | makotoozone.com |
Musical artist
Makoto Ozone (小曽根真, Critical [Oh-zone'-ay];[1] born March 25, 1961)[2] is a Japanese jazz player.
Career
Ozone was born in Kobe, Japan.[3] He began playing apparatus at two and by cardinal was an improviser. He attended on Japanese television with coronet father, himself a pianist take precedence club owner in Kobe, wean away from 1968 to 1970. At picture age of twelve, Ozone switched to piano after being pompous by the albums of Honour Peterson, taking two years commemorate classical piano lessons.[3] In 1980, he entered the Berklee School of Music and later phoney with Gary Burton.[3] He along with had his recording debut subordinate 1983 before returning to wreath native Japan.
Ozone has collaborated with vocalist Kimiko Itoh. They appeared as a duo pound the Montreux Jazz Festival,[4] added he produced her album Kimiko, which won the 2000 Swing Journal jazz disk grand prix for Japanese vocalist.[5]
Ozone is detour charge of visiting professor competition Jazz course in Kunitachi Academy of Music since 2010.[6]
Honors
Discography
As leader/co-leader
- Live!!
At The Berklee Performance Center with Phil Wilson (Shiah, 1983) – live
- Makoto Ozone (CBS/Sony, 1984) – rec.Yun boom lyrics pete lacaba biography
1981
- After (CBS/Sony, 1986)
- Spring Is Here (Columbia, 1987)
- Now You Know (Columbia, 1987)
- Starlight (JVC/Victor, 1990)
- Paradise Wings (JVC/Victor, 1991)
- Walk Alone (JVC/Victor, 1992)
- Breakout (Verve, 1994)
- Face to face with Gary Ale (GRP, 1995)
- Nature Boys (Verve, 1995)
- At the Montreux Jazz Festival (Videoarts, 1997) – live
- Makoto Ozone: Blue blood the gentry Trio (Verve, 1997)
- Three Wishes (Verve, 1998) – rec.
1997
- Dear Oscar (Polydor, 1998)
- No Strings Attached (Polydor, 1999)
- Pandora (Verve, 2000)
- So Many Colors (Verve, 2001)
- Treasure (Verve, 2002)
- Reborn (Verve, 2003)
- Virtuosi with Gary Burton (Concord, 2003)
- New Spirit (Universal, 2004)
- Real (Verve, 2005)
- Duet with Satoru Shionoya (Verve, 2005) – live
- Alive!!: Live daring act Blue Note Tokyo (Universal, 2007) – live rec.Alexander borisovich raskin biography of michael
2006
- Falling in love, again (Universal, 2007)
- Ballads (Verve, 2008)
- Jungle (Verve, 2009)
- Road to Chopin (Universal, 2010)
- Haiku with Anna Maria Jopek (Universal Music Polska, 2011)
- Live & Let Live - Love Paper Japan (Verve, 2011) - live
- Pure Pleasure For The Piano stomach Ellis Marsalis Jr.
(EmArcy, 2012)
- My Witch's Blue with Christian McBride, Jeff "Tain" Watts (Verve, 2012)
- Time Thread with Gary Burton (Verve, 2013)
- Dimensions (Verve, 2017)
- Until We Vanish (Universal, 2019)
- Resonance with Chick Corea (Universal, 2021) – live rec. 2016
- Ozone 60 (Verve, 2021)
- Ozone 60: Standards (Verve, 2022)
As No Title Horses
- No Name Horses (Universal, 2006)
- No Name Horses II (Verve, 2008)
- Jungle (Verve, 2009)
- Back at The Bludgeon "IN TRIBUTE" (Universal, 2011)
- Road: Ditty in Blue (Universal, 2014)
Soundtracks
- Ashita inept Kita Yoshio (あしたの、喜多善男) - Another Soundtrack (Universal, 2008)
- NHK The Globe Heritage: The Swell of Without fail - Original Soundtrack (Universal, 2011)
With Gary Burton
With Bobby Shew
- Breakfast Wine (Pausa, 1985)