Wild Bill Davison Button
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content: Levin, Floyd
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content: <p>This button celebrates jazz cornetist “Wild” Bill Davison. It is a round button with a black background with gold lettering covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:</p>
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content: <p>WILD BILL DAVISON<br>[image of trumpet]<br>DOMO ARIGATO</p>
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content: <p>”Wild” Bill Davison (born William Edward Davison, 1906-1989) was an American jazz cornet player. Davison was active from the 1920s to the 1960s, and best known for his work with bandleader Eddie Condon.</p>
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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>
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content: Currently not on view
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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
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content: Gift of Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.193
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content: 2011.3086
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content: 2011.3086.193
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content: button
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: overall: 2 1/4 in; x 5.715 cm