Boomtown - Album Release Show

[Live Show | Livestream] Sets at 7pm + 9pm ET TWO NIGHT ALBUM RELEASE SHOW "I believe that all humans are creative by nature, and that all places can be locations of inspiration – if you look closely enough. The music for this album came to me on August 21, 2024 while driving across the state of Wyoming. The feeling was something about magic combined with terror. For me there's no explanation for how or why the music arrives, but I think it's possible to set ideas in motion and then try to be observant enough to catch them if they come back to you and ask for attention. I'd say that's basically how I compose. On that particular day, I had released Miniature America a month before and my thoughts were on the scale of things. Some melodies and forms came to mind, and I did my best to translate them into what you have here. The Romantic poets had a notion of the ‘sublime’ – it's not the same as beauty, which is a surface level thing. The sublime includes some element that you can't get your mind around, something simultaneously transcendental and terrifying. I'm drawn to portraits of America that deal with this polarity. This is a place of miraculous creativity and dreaming mixed with incredible greed, callousness, and suffering. I'm a person who works with the dual nature of things, and this my attempt at making a kind of ugly beauty.” General Seating $33 ($22 for members; $16.50 for student members) Cabaret Seating $44 ($27.50 for members) Livestream $22 ($7.50 for members) *Pricing listed includes online purchasing fees. Fees not applicable for in-person sales. MILES OKAZAKI Miles Okazaki is a NYC-based guitarist originally from Port Townsend, a small seaside town in Washington State. His approach to the guitar is described by the New York Times as “utterly contemporary, free from the expectations of what it means to play a guitar in a group setting — not just in jazz, but any kind.” His touring and recording experience over three decades includes work with Kenny Barron, John Zorn, Steve Coleman, Miguel Zenón, Stanley Turrentine, Henry Threadgill, Patricia Brennan, Dan Weiss, Anthony Tidd, Adam Rudolph, Anna Webber, Matt Mitchell, Mary Halvorson, Jonathan Finlayson, Jen Shyu, Jacob Garchik, Jon Irabagon, Jane Monheit, Amir ElSaffar, Darcy James Argue, and many others. He has released 12 albums of original compositions over the last 12 years on the Sunnyside, Pi, and Cygnus labels. In 2018 Okazaki received wide critical acclaim for his six-album recording of the complete compositions of Thelonious Monk for solo guitar, an unprecedented project that Nate Chinen called “the six-string equivalent of a free solo climb up El Capitan.” In 2024 he recorded the entire songbook again from memory in a one night, five-hour concert filmed at The Jazz Gallery in NYC. In addition, Okazaki was voted the #1 rising star guitarist in the Downbeat Magazine critic’s poll, has published a book Fundamentals of Guitar on Mel Bay, teaches at Princeton University, and holds degrees from Harvard University, Manhattan School of Music, and the Juilliard School.