{"id":638,"date":"2005-11-01T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2005-11-01T20:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=638"},"modified":"2024-12-31T10:31:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T16:31:52","slug":"les-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/les-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les Fields<\/p>\n<p>(1928- )<\/p>\n<p>Inducted 2004<\/p>\n<p>Les Fields of Rochester, Minnesota was born in Cresco, Iowa, a town near the Turkey River. His musical history began at the age of five, playing a drum in the kindergarten rhythm band. Piano lessons in the third grade held his interest for only a year until the coronet took over in the fourth grade. Les played with orchestras from Lanesboro and Rochester, including the Mayo Clinic\u2019s 22-piece big band, The Notochords. An event in 1968 changed his life: when someone forgot to hire a band for a Rochester Bank\u2019s Christmas party, Les was called and he rounded up six top-notch musicians to play. That band was the debut of the Turkey River All Stars. Les Fields has gone on to be called &#8220;The Godfather of Jazz&#8221; in his hometown of Rochester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Fields (1928- ) Inducted 2004 Les Fields of Rochester, Minnesota was born in Cresco, Iowa, a town near the Turkey River. His musical history began at the age of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,6],"tags":[267,104,65,103,271,57,45,273,272],"class_list":["post-638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-28","category-inductee","tag-267","tag-dixieland","tag-inductee","tag-jazz","tag-les-fields","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-rochester","tag-turkey-river-all-stars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}