{"id":801,"date":"2014-11-01T15:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T20:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/?p=801"},"modified":"2025-01-01T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T15:23:12","slug":"irv-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/irv-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Irv Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Irv Williams<\/p>\n<p>(1919-2019)<\/p>\n<p>Inducted 2014<\/p>\n<p>Known as \u201cMr. Smooth\u201d, Irv Williams was a jazz master musician at saxophone and a true Minnesota music legend. An unusually long career saw Irv still performing weekly- into his 90s- at the Dakota Jazz Club in downtown Minneapolis. In 1984 he was the first jazz musician to be honored by the State of Minnesota with his own &#8220;Irv Williams Day\u201d, and he has won many awards through his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irv Williams (1919-2019) Inducted 2014 Known as \u201cMr. Smooth\u201d, Irv Williams was a jazz master musician at saxophone and a true Minnesota music legend. An unusually long career saw Irv [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,6],"tags":[366,65,371,68,57,45,159],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-37","category-inductee","tag-366","tag-inductee","tag-irv-williams","tag-minneapolis","tag-minnesota","tag-minnesota-music-hall-of-fame","tag-saxophone"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","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=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mnmusichalloffame.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}