Paradise Valley Jazz Party Button
date: label: date made
content: 1985
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Paradise Valley Jazz Party in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1985. It has a dark blue background with white printing covered with a clear film, on a round two-piece metal button with a pin back. There is an image of jazz trombonist, Al Grey, on the side of the button. Grey was the guest of honor at the event. These buttons were given to all Jazz Party goers as admission tickets and to simplify the billing for food and beverages. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>1985 PARADISE VALLEY<br>JAZZ PARTY<br>179</p>
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content: <p>The Paradise Jazz Party was founded by Don Z. and Sue Miller, owners of a finance company and a motorcycle dealership, in 1978. Denver businessman Dick Gibson, of the Colorado Jazz Parties, helped the Millers start a similar event in Arizona. </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: Arizona, Scottsdale
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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: 2011.3086.026
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.026
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/4 in x 1 3/4 in; x .635 cm x 4.445 cm