Masahiko Satō is a Japanese jazz pianist , arranger and composer. br Satō learned from the age of 5 years violin and piano playing. He debuted in jazz as a companion of the singer Dakota Staton . After training at the Keio University he studied arrangement and composition from 1966 to 1968 at the Berklee College of Music . The album Perspective , which he with Toshiyuki Miyama and his New Herd presented in 1969, was highly respected in Japan. His recordings in 1970 with Attila Zoller gave him first international attention. Satō also appeared on the Berlin Jazz Festival , and the Donaueschingen Music Festival , the Montreux Jazz Festival and the Moers Festival on. He worked with his own band and as a soloist, but also with Nancy Wilson , Art Farmer and Helen Merrill . He also took with Jean-Luc Ponty , Stomu Yamashta , Wolfgang Dauner , Albert Mangelsdorff , Ned Rothenberg and Joëlle Léandre on. br br Stomu Yamashta, born Tsutomu Yamashita is a Japanese percussionist, keyboardist and composer. He is best known for pioneering and popularising the world music genre after blending traditional music with popular music in the 1960s and 1970s. br Stomu Yamashta was born in Kyoto, Japan, and studied music at Kyoto University, Juilliard School of Music, and Berklee College of Music, and has also lectured in music. His innovation and acrobatic drumming style earned him many accolades. In the 1960s he performed with Thor Johnson, Toru Takemitsu, and Hans Werner Henze amongst others. He changed his name from Tsutomu Yamashita to the phonetic Stomu Yamashta and in 1969 gained worldwide recognition during a concert with Seiji Ozawa and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Time Magazine reviewed the concert declaring the star of the evening was Stomu Yamashta who stole the show with his virtuosic performance, and when it was over the audience gave him a five minute standing ovation. br br He was the leader of the supergroup Go with Steve Winwood, Al Di Meola, Klaus Schulze, and Michael Shrieve. He has composed for the British Royal Ballet, and wrote pieces for the David Bowie film The Man Who Fell to Earth and performed in Peter Maxwell Davies's score for Ken Russell's The Devils and in John Williams' score for Robert Altman's Images (1972). He has also composed film scores. His Space Theme was used by the BBC on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. br br This collaboration album was recorded January 27, 1971 at Nippon Columbia Studio, Tokyo, Japan.