Gabe Baltazar Jr, whose autobiography If It Swings, It’s Music was published this month, was interviewed last March by Tucson jazz radio host Jake Feinberg. For some backstory on the interview, go to http://www.bonhawaii.com/legendary-sax-player-gabe-baltazar-worldwide-radio-show; for the interview, go to http://www.jakefeinbergshow.com/2012/03/jfs-65-the-gabe-baltazar-interview/.
Catch Gabe on YouTube reminiscing at this month’s Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival:
- On meeting his idol, Charlie Parker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XcdFbilqfs
- On joining the Stan Kenton Orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agxiO2Gd19c
