2020
● “Best of the MIYUMI Project” MIYUMI Project – FPE Records Release 11/20/2020
● “atashi wa rami” – AIR 106
2019
● “Boxes” – AIR 102
● “Fred Anderson Quartet – Live Volume V” – FPE Records
2018
● “Fred Anderson Legacy Band” – AIR00227
● “MIYUMI Project: “RAW and ALIVE II” – AIR0100
● “Reduction Ensemble – MIYUMI Project” – AIR0099
● “Jonathan Chen Orchestra: Feedback” – AIR0098
2017
● “That’s What It WAZ – trio WAZ” – AIR0097
● “And Then They Came For Us \ Un-American” – AIR0096
● “Miyoshi Sketches” by Francis Wong – AIR0094
● “Tsukasa Taiko: Gintenkai”
2016
● “MIYUMI Project: RAW and ALIVE” – AIR0092
● “SKYLAINDING Music of Yoko Ono” by Yoko Ono – AIR0091
● “Fred Anderson Quartet Live Vol. 4” – Asian Improv Records AIR0090
2015
● “Melody Takakata: Page’s” – AIR0088
● Fred Anderson Birthday Quitesscitial Trio Lvie AIR0087
2014
● “Shadow to Shadow” with Melody Takata AIR0086
2013
● “Francis Wong: Wojtck Trio” AIR0085
● “Tsukasa Taiko 2013” AIR0084
2012
● “TOYOAKIMOTO”, AIR0083 with Chizuru Kineya
2011
● “Gintenkai: Amy Homma & Tsukasa Taiko: AIR0081
2010
● Jonathan Chen Orchestra Returns” Asian Improv Records: AIR0079 (Duet withTatsu Aoki)
● “Early Abstractions: Francis Wong Trio ESTRADA Records
2009
● “Three Big Guys plus One” Asian Improrv Records AIR0078
● “Fred Anderson Trio – Birthday Live 2000”, Asian Improv Records AIR0075
2008
● “Fred Anderson Quartet Live Vol. 3, Asian Improv Records, AIR0074
● “SORI” (Duet with Dohee Lee) Asian Improv Records, AIR0073
● “MIYUMI PROJECT Live in Poland” Southport Records, SSD0125
2007
● “Jonathan Chen Orchestra” Asian Improv Records: AIR0072 (Duet withTatsu Aoki)
2006
● “re:ROOTED – the MIYUMI PROJECT” Southport Records: SSD0122
2005
● “First Look” Southport Records: SSD0112 (Duet with Roscoe Mitchell)
● “Ancient Pine” Southport Records: SSD0111 (Duet with Tim O’Dell)
2005
● “Basser Live II” Asian Improv Records: AIR0067 (Solo bass music with JASC Tsukasa Taiko)
● “Graphic Evidence” Asian Improv Records: AIR0066 (with Francis Wong and Jason Kao Hwang)
2004
● “Trio City 2” Southport Records: SSD0108
2003
● “Posture of Reality” Asian Improv Records: AIR0065(Duet with Wu Man)
● “Fred Anderson: Back at the Velvet Lounge” Demark Records: DG549
(Fred Anderson, Maurice Brown, Jeff Parker, Chad Taylor, etc)
2002
● “A Symphony of Cities” Southport Records: SSD0096 (Duet with Famoudou Don Moye)
● “TRIO” Melungeon Records (with Joseph Jarman and Robbie Hunsinger)
2001
● “Fred Anderson: On the Run” Delmark Records: DG534 (Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake/Tatsu Aoki)
● “ROOTED: ORIGINS OF NOW – The MIYUMI PROJECT BIG BAND” Southport Records: SSD0092
● “milk and participants – Tri-Color” Atavistic (Jeff Parker/Dave Pavkovic/Tatsu Aoki)
2000
● “The MIYUMI Project” Southport Records: S-SSD0078
(Mwata Bowden/Patti Adachi/Hide Yoshihashi/Paul Kim/Robbie Hunsinger/Tatsu Aoki)
● “Fred Anderson Quartet Volume II” Asian Improv Records: AIR0054
(Fred Anderson/Hamid Drake/Jeff Parker/Tatsu Aoki)
● “Basser Live” Asian Improv Records: AIR0046
(Solo Bass Music with special guest Paul Kim/John Sagami)
1999
● “mirth + feckless – Tri-Color” Atavistic: alpl08cd
(Jeff Parker/Dave Pavkovic/Tatsu Aoki)
● “Fred Anderson Quartet Volume One” Asian Improv Records: AIR0049
(Fred Anderson/Bill Brimfield/Chad Taylor/Tatsu Aoki)
● “2 X 4” Southport Records: S-SSD
(Duet with Malachi Favors)
● “Power Trio Live” Asian Improv Records: AIR0040
(Aoki/Bowden/Phillard Trio)
1998
● “Finally Elijah” Southport Records: S-SSD0051
(Elijah Levi and Aoki Quartet)
1997
● “FRED – Chicago Chamber Music” Southport Records: S-SSD0043
(A double disc release with Fred Anderson/Afifi Phillard/Tatsu Aoki
● “Live at Blue Rider Theatre” IEL Records: IEL0004 (Solo bass music)
● “Eigen” IEL Records: IEL0003 (Solo bass music)
● “red fire ant trio live in Iowa City” Toe CD 117 (Aoki/Pavkovic/O’Dell Trio)
1996
● “Urban Reception” Southport Records: S-SSD0039
(Aoki/Wong/Pavkovic Trio)
● “FIRE – Von Freeman” Southport Records: S-SSD0035
(Ensemble work with Von Freeman, etc.)
● “Actual Music” Toe Inc.: Toe CD 116
(Duet work with Dave Pavkovic)
1995
● “CHICAGO TIME CODE” Asian Improv Records: AIR0019
(Duet work with Francis Wong)
● “Strange Familiar” BOOKish Inc.: SF101
(Duet work with Lynn Book)
● “If it wasn’t for Paul” Southport Records: S-SSD 0034
(Duet work with Bradley Parker-Sparrow)
1994
● “KIOTO” Asian Improv Records: AIR0017(Solo bass music)
1993
● “Avant Bass Live” IEL Records: IEL0793
(Solo bass music)
● “Needless to Say…” Sound Aspects Records: SASCD047
(Solo bass music)
● “Lynn Book & Tatsu Aoki – Selected Works” IEL Records: cassette only
1992
● “Depressingly Happy” IEL Records: IEL09190429 (Solo bass music)
Tatsu Aoki appears on
● Featured on “Ourania/ Makosica “ Feeding Tube Records (Scheduled for release in 2021)
● Nicole Mitchell’s “Mandorla Awakening II/Black Earth Ensemble” 2018-19
● Hide Yoshihashi and JASC Tsukasa Taiko (06)
● Gintenkai / Amy Homma & Tsukasa Taiko (11)
● Tsukasa Taiko / Gintenkai 2013 unit (13)
Please visit: Tsukasa Taiko website: taikolegacy.com
● Shadow to Shadow / Melody Takata (14) AIR0086
Please visit: GenRyu Arts webasite: genryuarts.org
● Before My Life / Tim O’Dell (01)
● Ancient Pines / Tim O’Dell (05)
● At Wars End / Tim O’Dell (13)
Please visit: Tim O’Dell webasite: timodellmusic.com
● Blue Monday Jam At Hothouse / Yoko Noge & The Jazz Me Blues (94)
● Thrill Me / Yoko Noge & The Jazz Me Blues (96)
● Yoko Meets John / Yoko Noge & The Jazz Me Blues (99)
● Struttin’ With Yoko / Yoko Noge & The Jazz Me Blues (01)
● Live at Kaho Theater / Yoko Noge & The Jazz Me Blues (04)
Please visit: Yoko Noge website: yokonoge.com
● TRIO CITY / Ron Surace with Tatsu Aoki and Dave Pavkovic (01)
● TRIO CITY 2 / Ron Surace with Tatsu Aoki and Dave Pavkovic (04)
● We Are Not Machines / Bradley Parker-Sparrow (01)
As a producer, Aoki has produced over 30 albums, including the legendary Max Roach and Jon Jang’s “Beijing Trio”, as well as projects in the hip hop arena, and a number of other projects in the Asian Pacific American arts, such as film and concert series.
● Kioto Aoki, “ TBD“ , Scheduled Release March 2021
● Da Wei Wang featuring Ben Karas, “Liquid Metal Core“ Scheduled Release March 2021
● Mai Sugimoto, “TBD”, Scheduled Release March 2021
● Jeff Chan, “TBD”, Scheduled Release 2021
● Jason Finkelman, “Kuroshio” Release 11/6/20
● Mwata Bowden, “One Foot In, One Foot Out”, 2019
● Yoko Noge, “The Best of Jazz Me Blues Band”, 2019
● Jon Jang and Francis Wong, “The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance”, 2019
● Kaori Williams, “Japanese Songs, My Home, My Heart”, 2018
● Tsukasa Taiko and Genryu Arts, “The Gintenkai – Vinyl Edition”, 2018
● Mai Sugimoto, “Born/Raised” 2018
● Jeff Chan w/ Mwata Bowden, et al.“Jeff Chan’s Clarinet Conglomerate”, 2011
● Jeff Chan,Edward Wilkerson Jr. et al , “Horns of Plenty”, 2009
● Wu Man, “Posture of Reality”, 2003
● Beijing Trio / Jon Jang, Jiebing Chen, Max Roach
● Gathering of Ancestors / Francis Wong
● Sounds Like 1996: Asian American Artists
● Experimental Tokyo
