An Oregon band is preserving the swing jazz tunes that brought a semblance of normality to the thousands of families trapped behind barbed wire at the Minidoka prison camp in Idaho during World War II ...

Japanese American kids liked swing music as much as anybody back during World War II. So, when their families were rounded up and moved to internment camps, they brought the music with them That grim ...

PORTLAND, Ore.—The crowd inside the downtown city library goes wild as the Minidoka Swing Band launches into "All of Me" and vocalist Henry Sakamoto begins crooning, "All of me, why not take a-a-a-a-a ...

The Luther College Concert Band, under the direction of Cory Near, will embark on a tour of Japan from May 28 through June 9 — the ensemble’s first international tour since 2017. The Concert Band last ...