In broad outline, Akira Sakata and Masahiko Satoh have taken similar journeys. Each was born in the 1940s, each was active in the early wave of Japanese free jazz, and both men did plenty of other things before returning to the music in recent years. And yet they had not recorded together until they this recorded this concert at Pit Inn Tokyo in 2015. If concerns about compatibility motivated their decades of non-alignment, this encounter dispels them.
Sakata starts the album alone, playing an Ornette-ish figure on alto sax that could be taken as a suggestion of common ground. Satoh quickly picks up on the figure and begins elaborating it. The pianist wastes no time establishing a crucial different in their approaches; while Sakata favors mercurial, winding lines, Satoh has a lot of time for sharp angles. Bridging the gap between fluidity and rigidity are bassist Darin Gray and drummer Chris Corsano, collectively known as Chikamorachi. They’ve been playing with Sakata for the better part of a decade, and they have developed a solid rapport that enables them to hang with his quick changes in direction and volume. When he rips it up on alto, they’re right there with him, building energy and reinforcing contours. And when he drops the horn to keen and growl in a highly personal variation on Noh play vocalese, they pull back to create a creaking, chiming backdrop.
But as the set proceeds the rhythm section must negotiate not just the differing approaches of Sakata and Satoh, but an attitudinal and generational divide. Sataka switches to clarinet, and Satoh introduces blues-inflected figures. Gray supplies sturdy contrapuntal figures, shifting his responses between keyboard and woodwind while Corsano engages in a time-free undertow. It’s a valiant effort, but he can’t keep the music from shifting into old guys reminiscing mode. It eases back through the decades, never quite relinquishing its rumbling attachment to the present but increasingly steeped in memory. In the final minutes I can imagine Satoh and Sakata sitting at the bar, knocking back whiskeys while they reminisce about old jazz bars and the records they heard there. Somewhere in the crowd old Tokyo free jazz heads must have shed tears of nostalgia and joy.
Proton pump found to regulate blood pH in stingrays
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have discovered the same enzyme used by "boneworms" to dissolve whale carcasses, and that helps promote photosynthesis in corals, also regulates blood pH in stingrays. The study could help scientists better understand the enzyme's function in human kidneys to regulate blood and urine functions.
The findings, published in the August issue of the American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, show that the detection of blood pH levels is happening directly in cells that are specialized for pH regulation, and not in the brain or by hormones.
Caption: Cells isolated from stingray gills showing the protein (green) are moving to the cell membrane when activated. Credit: Scripps Oceanography/UC San Diego
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