{"id":2748,"date":"2026-01-05T14:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T00:38:19","slug":"swede-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/swede-wagner\/","title":{"rendered":"Swede Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inducted 2026<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nVirgil E. C. &#8220;Swede&#8221; Wagner (1911-1980)<br \/>\n.<br \/>\nNew Ulm native, trumpeter, bandleader, and arranger. Brother of 1992 MMHF inductee Babe Wagner, Swede ran Babe&#8217;s band into the 1950s after Babe passed away in 1949. Swede&#8217;s arranging skills of the sometimes-complicated and involved instrumentation of a top-notch old-tyme band&#8217;s music was second to none. The recordings that Swede made of &#8220;Hot Jazz&#8221; (with his brother) at St. Paul&#8217;s Schmidt Music during the mid-1940s prove that his prowess on trumpet and power while playing jazz show that Swede was easily in the same league as the <em>jazz cats <\/em>downriver in Mendota back mid-century.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2795\" src=\"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/A-3660285-1651850955-1894-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/A-3660285-1651850955-1894-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/A-3660285-1651850955-1894.jpg 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inducted 2026 . Virgil E. C. &#8220;Swede&#8221; Wagner (1911-1980) . New Ulm native, trumpeter, bandleader, and arranger. Brother of 1992 MMHF inductee Babe Wagner, Swede ran Babe&#8217;s band into the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[504],"tags":[502,65,57,45,509],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-504","tag-502","tag-inductee","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-swede-wagner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}