Makoto Ozone Explained

Makoto Ozone
Birth Date:	25 March 1961
Birth Place:	Kobe, Japan
Genre:	Jazz
Occupation:	Musician
Instrument:	Piano
Years Active:	1976 – present

^[1] is a Japanese jazz pianist.

Career

Ozone was born in Kobe, Japan. He began playing organ at two and by seven was an improviser. He appeared on Japanese television with his father, himself a pianist and club owner in Kobe, from 1968 to 1970. At the age of twelve, Ozone switched to piano after being impressed by the albums of Oscar Peterson, taking two years of classical piano lessons. In 1980, he entered the Berklee College of Music and later worked with Gary Burton.^[2] He also had his recording debut in 1983 before returning to his native Japan.

Ozone has collaborated with vocalist Kimiko Itoh. They appeared as a duo at the Montreux Jazz Festival,^[3] and he produced her album Kimiko, which won the 2000 Swing Journal jazz disk grand prix for Japanese vocalist.^[4]

Ozone is in charge of visiting professor of Jazz course in Kunitachi College of Music since 2010.^[5]

Honors

2003: Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.^[6]
2018:

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 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 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 with Gary Burton (Concord, 2003)
New Spirit (Universal, 2004)
Real (Verve, 2005)
Duet with Satoru Shionoya (Verve, 2005) – live
Alive!!: Live at Blue Note Tokyo (Universal, 2007) – live rec. 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 For Japan (Verve, 2011) - live
Pure Pleasure For The Piano with 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 Name Horses

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

Soundtracks

- Original Soundtrack (Universal, 2008)
NHK The World Heritage: The Swell of Time - Original Soundtrack (Universal, 2011)

As sideman

With Gary Burton

Real Life Hits (ECM, 1984)
Whiz Kids (ECM, 1986)
Generations (Concord, 2004)

With Bobby Shew

Breakfast Wine (Pausa, 1985)

External links

Official website
[{{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p7274/biography|pure_url=yes}} All Music]

Notes and References

Web site: Makoto Ozone music . Allaboutjazz.com. October 1997 . 2 October 2021.
Book: The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Colin Larkin. Guinness Publishing. 1992. First. 0-85112-939-0. 1886.
Web site: Montreux duo. https://web.archive.org/web/20060524082948/http://www.montreuxsounds.com/detail2006.php?fiche=1939. dead. 24 May 2006. 2 October 2021.
Web site: 第34回（2000年度）スイングジャーナルジャズ・ディスク大賞 - ジャズ名盤紹介サイト JAZZCD.JP. 10 September 2015. Jazzcd.jp.
Web site: ニュース：ジャズ専修設置記者会見を行いました . . April 3, 2020 . ja . News: Announced about the establishment of Jazz course.
http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2003/09/04/Jazz-alums-to-receive-honorary-doctorates/82881062694653/ "Jazz alums to receive honorary doctorates"