Colorado Jazz Party Button
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content: <p>This button is from Dick Gibson’s Jazz Party, held at various venues in Colorado since its inception in 1963. The button is a round metal straight-pin back button with red, white, and blue stripes and blue, black and red text. 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>
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content: <p>GIBSON<br>[image of trumpet]<br>M 2<br>JAZZ</p>
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content: <p>Dick Gibson, a Denver businessman, sponsored the first Colorado Jazz Party in 1963 as a means to reinvigorate the jazz scene in Colorado. These private gatherings brought together musicians and fans from all over the world in an intimate setting of weekend-long jam sessions. Initially hosted at the Jerome Hotel in Aspen, the Jazz Party became an annual event, moving to the Broadmoor Hotel, a resort located high in the mountains above Colorado Springs, then to Denver. This Jazz Party format has since inspired multiple other jazz parties throughout the United States.</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 Hilma Carter
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2007.0013.09
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content: 2007.0013.09
label: accession number
content: 2007.0013
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content: button
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content: metal (overall material)
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in; x 4.445 cm