Playing keyboard since he was 2, Makoto Ozone released his first album with Collaboration Records at 22. At this time, he also started touring with the Gary Burton quartet throughout the world. He has continued to record extensively, releasing numerous solo albums in the United States and Japan and collaborating with such musicians as Paquito D'rivera, Marc Johnson, Chuck Loeb, and Gay Burton. His recordings have won numerous accolades and his 2002 collaboration with Gary Burton, Viruosi, earned the duo a Grammy nomination.

Makoto Ozone appears in Jazz Virtuosi on January 21 and 23, 2005.

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