Jazz at the Plaza Button
Jazz at the Plaza Button
- Description
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This button is from Jazz at the Plaza festival in Los Angeles, California. It is a diamond-shaped button made of paper with a white background and pink printing covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:
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BALDWIN HILLS
CRENSHAW PLAZA
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN
AMERICAN ART
Jazz
at the
Plaza
Coors -
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
- user
- Levin, Floyd
- place made
- United States: California, Los Angeles
- Physical Description
- ink (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 1 5/8 in x 1 5/8 in; 4.1275 cm x 4.1275 cm
- ID Number
- 2011.3086.148
- nonaccession number
- 2011.3086
- catalog number
- 2011.3086.148
- 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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