Dan Kuramoto, leader of the iconic Asian American jazz band Hiroshima. As part of its "Domo," or "Thank You," tour — which he called a "wind down," not a final farewell — Hiroshima is playing Saturday ...

HIROSHIMA (9:45pm) Taking the term “fusion” to its most extreme, Japanese-American band Hiroshima have for 30 years sought out ways to combine styles as disparate as jazz, disco, and R&B. Their use of ...

Departure isn't as much a radical departure as it is the next step in Hiroshima's evolution away from smooth jazz mainstay into a tight unit of skilled players making consistently solid music. The ...

Record labels didn't know what to do with Hiroshima. The band, led by Japanese American Boyle Heights native Dan Kuramoto, defied simple categorization. It featured Japanese instruments like taiko ...