Recording/mixing engineer based in New York (USA). Graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2005. Began his career in April 2006 at [l264960], where he worked until March 2016. Began freelancing in April 2008. Operates his own studio in Brooklyn since 2010, and later in Long Island City.
May appear on releases as Aki Nishimura.
ALBUMS
Makoto Ozone
TRiNFiNiTY
2024, CD, Album, SHM, Verve Records, 
Makoto Ozone, No Name Horses
Day 1
2024, CD, Album, Verve Records, ,
, Big Band
Peter Cincotti
Peter Cincotti Live At The Café Carlyle
2024, LP, Album, Freddy Eggs Records LLC
Ayumi Ishito
Wondercult Club
2024
Ayumi Ishito & The Spacemen
Vol. 2
2023, 7xFile, FLAC, Album, 577 Records, 
,
, Free Jazz/Art Rock/Experimental/Abstract/Alternative Rock/Avant-garde Jazz/Future Jazz
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito, Eric Plaks, Zach Swanson, Jon Panikkar
Open Question Vol. 2
2023
Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Trio D'été
Turning Point
2022, CD, Album, 5Passion, ,
, Latin Jazz
Meredith Monk
The Recordings
2022, CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, Album, RE + CD, ECM New Series, ECM New Series, 
,
, Avantgarde/Contemporary/Experimental/Post-Modern/Opera/Vocal
Charnett Moffett
New Love
2021, CD, Album, Motéma
Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Skyline
2021
Daniel Carter, Ayumi Ishito, Eric Plaks, Zach Swanson, Jon Panikkar
Open Question Vol. 1
2021
Jana Herzen
Nothing But Love
2020, CD, Album, Motéma Music LLC
Kazuki Yamanaka
Dancer In Nirvana
2020, CD, Fresh Sound New Talent
D_Drive
Maximum Impact
2019
David Matthews*, Eddie Gomez, Steve Gadd
Sir,
2018
Makoto Ozone The Trio
Dimensions
2017
Nobuki Takamen
Live In Japan
2016, 2xCD, Album, Not On Label (Nobuki Takamen Self-released)
Shu Odamura
Cloud Illusions
2016, CD, Album, What'sNew Records
Steve Khan
Backlog = Asuntos Pendientes
2016, CD, ,
, Latin Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Nobuki Takamen
Solo Guitar
2014, CD, Album, Not On Label (Nobuki Takamen Self-released)
Vijay Iyer / Prashant Bhargava
Radhe Radhe (Rites Of Holi)
2014
Steve Khan
Subtext = Subtexto En Azul
2014, ,
, Latin Jazz/Contemporary Jazz
Joshua Redman
Walking Shadows
2013, CD, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Nobuki Takamen
Three Wishes
2012, CD, Album, Summit Records (3)
Ellis Marsalis & Makoto Ozone
Pure Pleasure For The Piano
2012
Meredith Monk
Songs Of Ascension
2011, CD, ,
, Contemporary/Vocal
Lee Konitz / Brad Mehldau / Charlie Haden / Paul Motian
Live At Birdland
2011, ,
, Post Bop
Angélique Kidjo
Õÿö
2010, CD, ,
, African/Afrobeat/Contemporary R&B/Funk/Samba/Soul/Folk
APPEARANCES +
Arturo O'Farrill, The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra*
Mundoagua (Celebrating Carla Bley)
2025, CD, Album, ZOHO, ,
, Big Band/Latin Jazz/Post Bop
Loren Allred
No Promises To Keep
2024, Vinyl Pink Translucent, ,
, Video Game Music
Jérôme Sabbagh
Heart
2024
Makoto Ozone Super Quartet
A Night In Tokyo
2023, CD, Album, SHM, Blue Note,
Joel Goodman
An Exquisite Moment
2023, LP, Tra, A64, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Modal
Joel Goodman
An Exquisite Moment
2023, CD, Album, A64, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Fusion/Jazz-Rock/Modal
Jacques Schwarz-Bart
The Harlem Suite
2023
挾間美帆*, Miho Hazama's m_unit
Beyond Orbits
2023, Vinyl Marbled Gold, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Miolina
À la BAMA
2021, CD, Album, Composers Concordance Records
Tom Kitt
Reflect
2021, CD, ,
, Vocal
Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story - Cast 2021
West Side Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2021, CD, ,
, Musical/Soundtrack
Ryuichi Sakamoto
2019
2020, Box, Album, Ltd, Num + 6x12" + 12" + 7", S/Sided, Commmons, ,
, Ambient/Soundtrack
Emi Makabe
Anniversary
2020, CD, Album, Greenleaf Music, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Curtis Knight & The Squires
No Business (The PPX Sessions Volume 2)
2020
Herlin Riley
Perpetual Optimism
2019, CD, Mack Avenue,
Steve Khan
Patchwork = Medio Mezclado
2019, CD, Album, Tone Center
Ralph Peterson's Gen-Next Bigband*
Listen Up!
2019, CD, Album, Onyx Music (3), ,
, Post Bop/Bop/Big Band/Vocal
Band-Maid
Conqueror
2019, CD, Blu-ray, All Media Type A, ,
, Hard Rock/Pop Rock/J-Rock
D_Drive
Gekirin-逆鱗- / Gradation
2018, CD, Single, Cool Tone Music
Bill Stewart, Walter Smith III, Larry Grenadier
Band Menu
2018, CD, Album, Not On Label (Bill Stewart Self-released), ,
, Post Bop
Takashi Sugawa Trio
Outgrowing
2018, CD, Album, Song X Jazz
Brad Mehldau Trio
Seymour Reads The Constitution!
2018
Walking Distance Feat. Jason Moran
Freebird
2018, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop/Avant-garde Jazz
Irving Berlin
Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2017, CD, Album, Ghostlight Records, ,
, Musical
Howard Ashman, Alan Menken, Dennis Green
Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
2017, CD, Album, Ghostlight Records, ,
, Musical
TJ Armand Feat. Marlain Angelides
Lost Soldier (Demo)
2017, File, AAC, Single, 256, Not On Label
Carrie Manolakos
The 44th Chord
2017, CD, Album, Not On Label (Carrie Manolakos Self-released)
Original Cast of SpongeBob SquarePants, The New Musical
SpongeBob SquarePants, the New Musical (Original Cast Recording)
2017, CD, ,
, Musical
Bette Midler, Michael Stewart (7), Jerry Herman
Hello, Dolly! (The New Broadway Cast Recording)
2017, CD Slipcase, ,
, Musical
Curtis Knight Featuring Jimi Hendrix
Live At George's Club 20
2017,
Theo Bleckmann
Elegy
2017
Cécile McLorin Salvant
Dreams And Daggers
2017, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Vocal
Alan Menken, Stephen Schwartz, Brent Alan Huffman
The Hunchback Of Notre Dame (Studio Cast Recording)
2016, CD, Album, Ghostlight Records, ,
, Musical
Brad Mehldau Trio
Blues and Ballads
2016
Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra
Time/Life (Song For The Whales And Other Beings)
2016, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Vijay Iyer / Wadada Leo Smith
A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke
2016, CD, ,
, Free Jazz
Ches Smith
The Bell
2016
Jack DeJohnette / Ravi Coltrane / Matthew Garrison
In Movement
2016, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Various
Vinyl (Music From The HBO Original Series Volume 1)
2016, CD, ,
, Soundtrack
The Avett Brothers
True Sadness
2016, ,
, Indie Rock/Folk Rock
Meredith Monk
On Behalf Of Nature
2016, CD, ,
, Contemporary
Kenny Barron Trio
Book Of Intuition
2016
Anat Cohen
Luminosa
2015, CD, Album, Anzic Records
Tyne Daly, Harriet Harris, Sierra Boggess, Lisa Howard
It Shoulda Been You (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2015, CD, Album, Ghostlight Records, ,
, Musical
George Gershwin And Ira Gershwin
An American in Paris (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2015, CD, Album, Masterworks Broadway
Curtis Knight & The Squires
You Can't Use My Name: The RSVP / PPX Sessions
2015
Lisa Hilton
Horizons
2015
Vijay Iyer Trio
Break Stuff
2015, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Sullivan Fortner
Aria
2015, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Antonio Sanchez (2) & Migration
The Meridian Suite
2015, CD, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz
Kid Rock
First Kiss
2015, CD Explicit, ,
, Southern Rock/Country Rock/Rock & Roll
Ben Folds
So There
2015
Wadada Leo Smith
The Great Lakes Suites
2014, 2xCD, Album, TUM Records, 
,
, Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Colette Michaan
Incarnate Encarna
2014, CD, Album, Creatrix Music, ,
, Latin Jazz/Afro-Cuban Jazz
Mark Turner Quartet
Lathe Of Heaven
2014, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Kenny Barron - Dave Holland
The Art Of Conversation
2014
Monty Alexander
Harlem-Kingston Express Vol. 2: The River Rolls On
2014,
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Cheek To Cheek
2014, CD, ,
, Swing
"The Last Ship" Original Broadway Cast
The Last Ship (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2014, CD, ,
, Musical
Renée Fleming
Christmas In New York
2014, ,
, Holiday
Hiromi*
Alive
2014
Stephen Emmer
International Blue
2014, CD,
Billy Childs
Map To The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro
2014, ,
, Vocal
Steve Khan
Subtext = Subtexto En Azul
2014
Ken Hirai = 平井堅*
Ken's Bar III
2014
David Virelles
Mbókò
2014
The Ali Ryerson Jazz Flute Big Band
Game Changer
2013, CD, Capri Records (6)
David Weiss (9) & Point Of Departure
Venture Inward
2013, CD, Album, Posi-Tone
Jonathan Batiste*
Jazz Is Now
2013, CD, Album, Naht Jona LLC, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Ragtime
Kenny Barron
Beautiful Love - The Excellent Jazz Standards Collection Vol. 1
2013, CD, Album, Eighty-Eight's, ,
, Bop/Swing/Post Bop
Kenny Barron
My Funny Valentine - The Excellent Jazz Standards Collection Vol. 2
2013, CD, Album, Eighty-Eight's
Warren Wolf
Wolfgang
2013, CD,
Billy Ocean
Here You Are
2013, 
Dave Douglas
DD/50 (50th Birthday Recordings)
2013
Yuto Kanazawa
Earthwards
2013
Dave Douglas Quintet
Time Travel
2013
Makoto Ozone, Gary Burton
Time Thread
2013
Jane Ira Bloom
Sixteen Sunsets
2013, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Numbers And Letters
Guns Under Water
2013, Vinyl Red transparent, CD, ,
, Country Rock
Jon Batiste And Stay Human
Social Music
2013
Gerard Alessandrini
Forbidden Broadway Alive & Kicking!
2012, CD, Album, DRG Records, ,
, Musical
Tony Bennett
Viva Duets
2012, CD, ,
, Easy Listening/Swing/Vocal
Brad Mehldau Trio
Ode
2012, CD, ,
, Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Joe Jackson
The Duke
2012, Vinyl, ,
, Big Band/Swing
Dave Douglas Quintet With Special Guest Aoife O'Donovan
Be Still
2012
Tim Berne
Snakeoil
2012
Lionel Richie
Tuskegee
2012, ,
, Country/Pop Rock/Ballad
Brad Mehldau Trio
Where Do You Start
2012, CD, ,
, Contemporary Jazz
Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band Directed By Brent Fischer ,Featuring Poncho Sanchez, Alex Acuña, Luis Conte, Peter Erskine, Steve Khan, Alan Pasqua, Don Shelton (2), Carl Saunders, Andy Martin
¡Ritmo!
2011, CD, Clavo Records, ,
, Big Band
Jim Black Trio
Somatic
2011
Michel Camilo
Mano A Mano
2011
Various
Chico & Rita
2011, CD Gatefold Cardboard Sleeve, 
,
, Soundtrack/Big Band/Bop/Easy Listening/Afro-Cuban Jazz/Latin Jazz/Guaracha/Bolero/Guaguancó/Swing/Rumba/Mambo
Various
Live & Let Live - Love For Japan
2011, CD,
Makoto Ozone Featuring No Name Horses
Back At The Club - In Tribute
2011
VHS Or Beta
Diamonds And Death
2011
Sadao Watanabe
Come Today
2011
Gurrumul*
Rrakala
2011
Chie Imaizumi
A Time Of New Beginnings
2010, CD, Album, Promo, Capri Records (6),
The Super Premium Band
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise
2010, CD, Album, DSD, Happinet
Renée Fleming
Dark Hope
2010, CD Digipak, ,
, Contemporary/Vocal
Miley Cyrus
Can't Be Tamed
2010, CD, ,
, Electro/Vocal
Paul Motian, Chris Potter (2), Jason Moran
Lost In A Dream
2010
摩天楼オペラ
Emergence From Cocoon ~Tour Document Film~
2010
Adriana
Adriana
2009, CD, Album, Universal Music Portugal
Chris Potter Underground
Ultrahang
2009, CD, Album, ArtistShare, ,
, Post Bop/Contemporary Jazz
Howie Day
Sound The Alarm
2009, CD, Album, Epic, ,
, Folk Rock/Soft Rock
John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble
Eternal Interlude
2009, CD, Album, Sunnyside, ,
, Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Ian Moss
Soul On West 53rd
2009, CD, Album, Liberation Music, 
,
, Soul
Dominick Farinacci
Lovers, Tales & Dances
2009, CD, Album, Koch Records, ,
, Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop
Christine Vaindirlis
Dance Mama!
2009, CDr, Album, Ubuntu World Music
Jon Mayer
Nightscape
2009, CD, Album, Reservoir (2)
Sam Newsome
Blue Soliloquy (Solo Works For Soprano Saxophone)
2009, CD, Album, Not On Label (Sam Newsome Self-released)
Hackamore Brick
Long Way Home
2009, CD, EP, Not On Label (Hackamore Brick Self-released)
Harry Connick, Jr.
Your Songs
2009, CD Barnes & Noble Exclusive, ,
, Vocal/Swing
Bona*
The Ten Shades Of Blues
2009, CD, ,
, African/Hindustani/Fusion/Vocal
Gary Smulyan
High Noon - The Jazz Soul Of Frankie Laine
2008, CD, Album, Reservoir (2), ,
, Post Bop
Kieran Hebden / Steve Reid
NYC
2008, CD, ,
, Free Jazz
Amos Lee
Supply And Demand
2006
Various
Case Of Telegraph Product 2
1983, LP, Comp, Telegraph Records
Brad Mehldau Trio
Blues and Ballads
2016
Jack DeJohnette / Ravi Coltrane / Matthew Garrison
In Movement
2016
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Cheek To Cheek
2014, CD, 
,
, Swing
Lionel Richie
Tuskegee
2012
Dave Douglas Quintet With Special Guest Aoife O'Donovan
Be Still