Hiroshima ~ Warriors 1980 Jazz Funk Purrfection Version

Right after the disco boom, the local economy collapsed and finding a job was incredibly difficult as everyone seemed to be reducing staff all over. I ended up going home and getting a job with my Dad in the office of a paper warehouse and distributor that he was the managing director. I had a lovely co worked named Glenda who brought a radio in and she would play this Detroit Jazz R&B station that played tons of music I knew like Earth Wind and Fire and Heatwave. I learned about Jazz Funk from that station with other less known artists they played like Judy Brown “The River Must Flow“ and this uptempo ode to a hero, “Warriors“ by Hiroshima. It’s a joyous celebration of Jazz Funk punctuated by the wonderful sounds of Japanese traditional instruments that set it apart and gave it a distinct sound. Formed in 1974 Dan Kuramoto had been playing in a band on the weekends and met June, who was born in Japan but raised in Los Angeles and played the koto, a Japanese stringed