Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival Badge
Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival Badge
- Description (Brief)
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This Patron badge is from the Los Angeles Classic Jazz Festival, in 1996. It made of gold colored paper with black lettering, encapsulated in plastic. The badge is printed:
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13th Annual
LOS ANGELES
CLASSIC
JAZZ
FESTIVAL
1996
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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- badge
- date made
- 1996
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 4 in x 2 1/4 in; 10.16 cm x 5.715 cm
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.060
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.060
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucille Levin
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- Cultural and Community Life: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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