Sacramento Jazz Jubilee Button
Sacramento Jazz Jubilee Button
- Description
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This button is from the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee Festival, in 2006. It is a made of white paper with multi-color printing covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. There is an adhesive-backed name tag on the front of the badge. The button is printed:
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[image of riverboat]
2006 SACRAMENTO
JAZZ JUBILEE
Lucille Levin
Sounds Like
FUN!
www.sacjazz.com -
The Sacramento Music Festival (formerly the Old Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee) was an annual event held every Memorial Day weekend in Sacramento, California. Organized by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the festival was launched in 1974 and presented its final festival in 2017.
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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
- button
- date made
- 2006
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- place made
- United States: California, Sacramento
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in; x 8.89 cm
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.108
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.108
- Credit Line
- Gift of Lucille Levin
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
- Music & Musical Instruments
- Popular Entertainment
- Jazz
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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