<i>Esquire</i> Magazine Award, presented to Benny Carter
date: label: presentation date
content: 1946
name: label: recipient
content: Carter, Benny
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This award was presented to Benny Carter from <i>Esquire</i> magazine in 1946. It features a stylized gold-tone statue of a man playing a trumpet, <i>Esquire</i> magazine’s pop-eyed mascot “Esky,” on a brown-stained wooden base with an embossed and engraved metal plate. The metal plate is marked:</p>
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content: <p>Esquire's<br>ALL AMERICAN BAND<br>ALTO SAXOPHONE - GOLD AWARD<br>AWARDED TO<br>BENNY CARTER<br>1946</p>
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content: <p><i>Esquire</i> is an American men’s magazine founded in 1933. The magazine featured its first jazz awards, All-American Jazz All Stars and All-American Jazz Band, chosen by <i>Esquire’s</i> board of leading jazz artists, critics, and writers, in 1944. The inaugural winners included Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Al Casey, Oscar Pettiford, and Sidney Catlett.</p>
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content: <p>The “Esky” mascot was created by African American cartoonist E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971).</p>
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content: <p>Benny Carter, born in New York City in 1907, was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader who made a significant contribution to jazz throughout his seventy year career. He has received two Grammy Awards, and in 1986 was granted the NEA Jazz Masters award by The National Endowment for the Arts. Carter died in 2003 at the age of 95.</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 Hilma Carter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0013.01
label: accession number
content: 2007.0013
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0013.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 in x 6 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 40.64 cm x 15.5575 cm x 15.5575 cm