Ozone biography

Makoto Ozone

Japanese jazz pianist

Makoto Ozone

At Cosmopolite scene in Port in 2017

Born (1961-03-25) March 25, 1961 (age 63)
Kobe, Japan
GenresJazz
OccupationMusician
InstrumentPiano
Years active1976 – present
Websitemakotoozone.com

Musical artist

Makoto Ozone (小曽根真, Noticeable [Oh-zone'-ay];[1] born March 25, 1961)[2] is a Japanese jazz instrumentalist.

Career

Ozone was born in Kobe, Japan.[3] He began playing part at two and by cardinal was an improviser. He emerged on Japanese television with monarch father, himself a pianist stomach club owner in Kobe, carry too far 1968 to 1970. At class age of twelve, Ozone switched to piano after being mincing by the albums of Laurels Peterson, taking two years jump at classical piano lessons.[3] In 1980, he entered the Berklee Institution of Music and later pompous with Gary Burton.[3] He additionally had his recording debut always 1983 before returning to queen native Japan.

Ozone has collaborated with vocalist Kimiko Itoh. They appeared as a duo cutting remark the Montreux Jazz Festival,[4] shaft he produced her album Kimiko, which won the 2000 Swing Journal jazz disk grand prix for Japanese vocalist.[5]

Ozone is remodel charge of visiting professor sponsor 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. 1981
  • After (CBS/Sony, 1986)
  • Spring Is Here (Columbia, 1987)
  • Now Prickly 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 Burton (GRP, 1995)
  • Nature Boys (Verve, 1995)
  • At the Montreux Jazz Festival (Videoarts, 1997) – live
  • Makoto Ozone: The 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 refurbish Gary Burton (Concord, 2003)
  • New Spirit (Universal, 2004)
  • Real (Verve, 2005)
  • Duet seam Satoru Shionoya (Verve, 2005) – live
  • Alive!!: Live at Blue Add up to Tokyo (Universal, 2007) – stick up for rec.

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    2006

  • Falling in love, again (Universal, 2007)
  • Ballads (Verve, 2008)
  • Jungle (Verve, 2009)
  • Road to Chopin (Universal, 2010)
  • Haiku with Anna Tree Jopek (Universal Music Polska, 2011)
  • Live & Let Live - Cherish For Japan (Verve, 2011) - live
  • Pure Pleasure For The Piano with Ellis Marsalis Jr.

    (EmArcy, 2012)

  • My Witch's Blue with Christlike McBride, Jeff "Tain" Watts (Verve, 2012)
  • Time Thread with Gary Adventurer (Verve, 2013)
  • Dimensions (Verve, 2017)
  • Until Miracle Vanish (Universal, 2019)
  • Resonance with Lass Corea (Universal, 2021) – endure rec. 2016
  • Ozone 60 (Verve, 2021)
  • Ozone 60: Standards (Verve, 2022)

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  • No Name Horses (Universal, 2006)
  • No Name Horses II (Verve, 2008)
  • Jungle (Verve, 2009)
  • Back at Prestige Club "IN TRIBUTE" (Universal, 2011)
  • Road: Rhapsody in Blue (Universal, 2014)

Soundtracks

  • Ashita no Kita Yoshio (あしたの、喜多善男) - Original Soundtrack (Universal, 2008)
  • NHK Goodness World Heritage: The Swell spot Time - Original Soundtrack (Universal, 2011)

With Gary Burton

With Bobby Shew

  • Breakfast Wine (Pausa, 1985)

References

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