{"id":21557,"date":"2011-09-21T11:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=21557"},"modified":"2011-09-21T11:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-09-21T15:46:52","slug":"justins-japan-hiroshima-lends-its-divine-sound-to-nyc-japan-benefit-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/21\/justins-japan-hiroshima-lends-its-divine-sound-to-nyc-japan-benefit-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Hiroshima lends its divine sound to NYC Japan benefit concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hiroshima brings its soothing sound to New York City Sept. 21.<\/p><\/div>\n

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By<\/em> <\/strong>JQ<\/strong> magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a> editor <\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/em><\/a> (CIR Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page <\/em>here<\/a> <\/em>for related stories.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A staple of the Los Angeles jazz scene since 1974, Hiroshima<\/a> returns for an East Coast engagement tonight (Sept. 21) to headline a Japan relief benefit concert with special guest stars at New York\u2019s B.B. King Blues Club & Grill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only Asian American band to have been nominated for a Grammy, the group\u2019s most recent album, 2009\u2019s Legacy<\/a><\/em>, celebrates Hiroshima\u2019s 30th anniversary of recording and serves as a re-visitation of songs (like the easy listening favorite \u201cRoomful of Mirrors<\/a>\u201d and \u201980s hit single \u201cOne Wish<\/a>\u201d) from the band\u2019s first decade.<\/p>\n

Led by original members Dan and June Kuramoto, the group proved itself a musical chimera from the start with its self-titled debut, mixing elements of jazz, pop, and R&B with traditional Japanese instruments. Dan has remarked that at the time in America, music was the only outlet of cultural diversity available, and the resulting disc was a pioneering voice in the world music movement that followed.<\/p>\n

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  By JQ magazine editor Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his\u00a0page here for related stories. A staple of the Los Angeles jazz scene since 1974, Hiroshima returns for an East Coast engagement tonight (Sept. 21) to headline a Japan relief benefit concert with special guest stars at New York\u2019s B.B. King Blues Club & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t