2016. Akira Sakata, legendary Japanese jazz musician since the early '70s (Yosuke Yamashita Trio, Akira Sakata Trio) and ocean-biologist, has toured and recorded with The Thing, Jim O'Rourke, Bill Laswell, Merzbow, ..

2023. Spectacular live recording from 1986 of two seminal figures of the Japanese avantgarde - Akira Sakata on saxophone and Takeo Moriyama on drums. 'Mitochondria' captures the reunion of the two free jazz masters,..

2004. Named after the initials of the four musicians it consists of, BANN quartet lines up Seamus Blake on tenor sax, Israeli progressive guitarist Oz Noy and the experienced pair formed of double bass player Jay An..