This Patron badge is from the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival, in 1990. The button is a made of light blue paper with black and red lettering covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. There is a white ribbon attached to the back of the button. The button is printed:
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT MARRIOTT
LOS ANGELES CLASSIC
JAZZ
FESTIVAL
1990
LOS ANGELES AIRPORT HILTON
(the ribbon is printed):
PATRON
Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.
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