Flip Phillips' 80th Birthday Party Medallion
date: label: date made
content: 1995
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This medallion is from the Flip Phillips 80th birthday party, in 1995. It is made of gold tone plastic with red and black ink. There is a metal loop at the top of the medallion with remnants of a hanging fabric strip. The medallion is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>MARCH 24-26, 1995<br>FLIP<br>PHILLIPS'<br>80th<br>BIRTHDAY<br>PARTY<br>[image of Flip Phillips]</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Flip Phillips, born Joseph Edward Filipelli (1915-2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>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 <i>Down Beat</i>, <i>Jazz Journal International</i>, <i>Metronome</i>, and <i>American Rag</i>. He also authored <i>Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians</i>. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Culture and the Arts: Musical Instruments
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Jazz
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.079
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.079
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medallion
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/4 in; x 6.985 cm