{"id":24145,"date":"2014-04-22T15:09:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T01:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=24145"},"modified":"2020-05-19T09:59:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:59:37","slug":"book-celebrates-hawaii-jazz-legend-gabe-baltazar-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/04\/22\/book-celebrates-hawaii-jazz-legend-gabe-baltazar-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Book celebrates <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai\u02bbi<\/span> jazz legend Gabe Baltazar Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-jmF6XlYkM\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s legendary jazz musician Gabe Baltazar Jr. has thrilled audiences since the late 1940s with his powerful and passionate playing. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhpress.hawaii.edu\/p-8731-9780824836375.aspx\"><em>If It Swings, It&#8217;s Music: The Autobiography of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>&#8217;s Gabe Baltazar Jr.<\/em><\/a>, Baltazar takes readers through the highs, lows and in-betweens on the long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Baltazar and University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.english.hawaii.edu\/\">English<\/a> Instructor Theo Garneau, <em>If It Swings, It&#8217;s Music<\/em> is published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhpress.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_24178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24178\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/battazarcov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/battazarcov.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/battazarcov-260x200.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-24178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabe Baltazar Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"clear-photo\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If It Swings, It\u2019s Music takes readers on Gabe Baltazar Jr.&#8217;s long road to becoming one of the very few Asian Americans who has achieved worldwide acclaim as a jazz artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[9,339],"class_list":["post-24145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uh-press","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24145"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118862,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24145\/revisions\/118862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}