America Society of Chicago 2014 Living in Our Culture Award, Japanese American Service Committee 2015 Jazz Heroes Award, Jazz Journalists Association 2017 Best Experimental Film, Light, Canada International Film Festival 2017 Commendation for the Promotion of Japanese Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan 2017 Community Service Award, Asian American Advisory Council of Illinois, Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White 2018 George Award, George Freeman 2018 Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association 2019 Community Service award, Asian American Coalition of Chicago 2020 United States Artist Fellowship and Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Selected discography Depressingly Happy (Innocent Eyes & Lenses, 1990) Needless to Say (Sound Aspects, 1992) Kioto (Asian Improv, 1994) If It Wasn't for Paul (Southport, 1995) Urban Reception (Southport, 1996) Actual Music (TOE, 1996) Live at Blue Rider Theatre (Innocent Eyes & Lenses, 1997) Basser Live (Asian Improv, 1999) 2 x 4 (Southport, 1999) with Malachi Favors Maghostut Trio (Melungeon 2006) Boxes (Asian Improv, 2019) As sideman With Fred Anderson Fred Chicago Chamber Music (Southport, 1997) Fred Anderson Quartet Volume One (Asian Improv, 1999) Fred Anderson Quartet Volume Two (Asian Improv, 2000) On the Run, Live at the Velvet Lounge (Delmark, 2001) Back at the Velvet Lounge (Delmark, 2003) Live at the Velvet Lounge Volume III (Asian Improv, 2008) Birthday Live 2000 (Asian Improv, 2009) Quintessential Birthday Trio Vol. II (Asian Improv, 2015) Fred Anderson Quartet Live Vol. IV (Asian Improv, 2016) Tsukasa Taiko: Gintenkai (Asian Improv, 2017) Fred Anderson Legacy Band (Asian Improv, 2018) Live Vol. V (FPE, 2019) With the Miyumi Project The Miyumi Project (Southport, 2000) Rooted: Origins of Now (Southport, 2002) Re:Rooted (Southport, 2006) MIYUMI Project: RAW and ALIVE (Asian Improv, 2016) And Then They Came for Us/Un-American (Asian Improv, 2017) Reduction Ensemble - MIYUMI Project (Asian Improv, 2018) MIYUMI Project: "RAW and ALIVE II" (Asian Improv, 2018) Best of the MIYUMI Project (FPE, 2020) With others Jeff Chan, Jeff Chan's Horns of Plenty (Asian Improv, 2009) Von Freeman, Fire with Von Freeman (Southport, 1996) Jason Kao Hwang, Graphic Evidence (Asian Improv, 2006) Kenny Millions, Midnight in Chicago (Hum Ha, 2002) Kenny Millions, Kenny Meets Tatsu (Hum Ha, 2002) Nicole Mitchell, Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE, 2017) Roscoe Mitchell, First Look, Chicago Duos (Southport, 2005) Don Moye, A Symphony of Cities (Southport, 2002) Francis Wong, Chicago Time Code (Asian Improv, 1995) Francis Wong, Early Abstractions (Estrada Poznanska, 2009) Francis Wong, Wojtck Trio (Asian Improv,