Miki Yamanaka

Miki Yamanaka (Japanese: 山中迪貴) (born 1990) is a Japanese jazz musician currently living in New York City. Miki Yamanaka lived in Kyoto until she was 10, when she moved to Kobe. She became interested in jazz while playing in her junior high school big band. She moved to New York in 2012 and took a compositional residency at the Kennedy Center in 2015. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she recorded the album Stairway to the Stars in her living room with Mark Turner and Orlando le Fleming. For her first gig after the pandemic, Yamanaka wore a kimono outfit to honor her mother; since then she has dressed in one every time she plays.

jazz

Chance - 2024-10-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Dust Settles - 2023-09-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Shades of Rainbow - 2023-09-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Stairway to the Stars - 2021-10-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Human Dust Suite - 2020-09-18T00:00:00.000000Z

Quintet - 2019-08-23T00:00:00.000000Z

Miki - 2018-08-10T00:00:00.000000Z

The Future is Female - 2018-03-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Jogral - 2025-08-08T00:00:00.000000Z

Moon - 2025-07-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Unconditional Love - 2024-09-06T00:00:00.000000Z

Herzog - 2024-08-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Bush Walked In - 2023-08-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Song For Mary Lou - 2023-07-28T00:00:00.000000Z

Judgment - 2023-07-07T00:00:00.000000Z

Smooch the Pooch - 2023-06-02T00:00:00.000000Z

Where To Now - 2022-11-30T00:00:00.000000Z

Happy Madness - 2022-07-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Tea for Two - 2021-08-27T00:00:00.000000Z

Human Dust Suite III Tummy - 2020-08-18T00:00:00.000000Z

All or Nothing At All - 2019-07-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Don't Cross the Coss - 2019-05-10T00:00:00.000000Z