Хиросима: Американский джаз с японскими мотивами

American jazz band

Hiroshima is an American band formed in 1974 that incorporates Japanese instruments in its music. Hiroshima has sold over four million albums around the world.

Dan Kuramoto, Hiroshima's leader, is from East Los Angeles. He attended California State University, Long Beach, then led its Asian American studies department. Through playing in a band on weekends he met June Kuramoto, a native of Japan who grew up in Los Angeles and played koto, a Japanese stringed instrument. Kuramoto admired Earth, Wind, and Fire for the way it combined jazz and R&B, and Santana for his identification with Latinos. He wanted to create a band that would represent Asian Americans. He named it after the Japanese city Hiroshima, which was mostly destroyed by an atomic weapon at the end of World War II. Hiroshima's debut album sold more than 100,000 copies in its first three months. The band's second album yielded the song "Winds of Change", which received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Instrumental. Hiroshima got its first gold album in 1985 with Another Place and the second with Go which followed it. The album Legacy was nominated for Best Pop Instrumental Album in 2010. Hiroshima has sold more than four million albums worldwide. In 1990, the band was the opening act for Miles Davis, for the band's "Impact on the Asian Pacific American (APA) community through their artistic excellence and support of the Asian Pacific American performing arts."

Title Year LabelHiroshima 1979AristaOdori 1980AristaThird Generation 1983EpicAnother Place 1985EpicGo 1987EpicEast 1989EpicProvidence 1992EpicL. A. 1994QwestUrban World Music 1996QwestBetween Black and White 1999Windham HillThe Bridge 2003Heads UpSpirit of the Season 2004Heads UpObon 2005Heads UpLittle Tokyo 2007Heads UpDeparture 2011HiroshimaJ Town Beat 2013CD Baby/Hiroshima20202021HiroshimaWeekends Away 2023CD Baby/Hiroshima