Jazz At Home Club Award
date: label: presentation date
content: 1964
name: label: recipient
content: Ellington, Duke
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This plaque was presented to Duke Ellington by the Jazz at Home Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1963. It is a wood plaque in the shape of a scroll with an engraved plate on a beveled rectangular wood base. There is a gold-tone musical note mounted on the right corner of the base. The metal plate is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>JAZZ AT HOME CLUB<br>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA<br>1964<br>JAZZ CULTURE AWARD<br>TO<br>DUKE ELLINGTON<br>BANDLEADER-COMPOSER<br>IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF HIS OUTSTANDING<br>CONTRIBUTIONS AND UNSELFISH DEVOTION TO<br>THE PERPETUATION OF THE AMERICAN<br>JAZZ CULTURE, FOR ALL PEOPLE REGARDLESS<br>OF RACE, COLOR, OR NATIONAL ORIGIN.<br>THIS AWARD SYBOLIZES FOR ALL THE WORLD<br>AND FOR ALL TIME THE UNIFYING INFLUENCE<br>FOR PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING THAT THE SOUND OF<br>DUKE ELLINGTON’S MUSIC<br>BRINGS TO THE WORLD.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Jazz at Home Club was organized in 1961 by Chet Carmichael, education director of radio station WDAS in Philadelphia. The club was created for casual jazz fans, with membership dues of one dollar per year. The club would have regularly scheduled jazz album listening sessions.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Jazz at Home Club presented its “Jazz Musician of the Year” Award to Duke Ellington in 1964. Other recipients of this award include Jimmy Smith (1962), Clark Terry (1964), Nina Simone (1966), and Horace Silver (1967).</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0369.032
label: accession number
content: 1989.0369
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0369.032
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plaque
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 7/8 in x 11 in x 6 3/4 in; 27.6225 cm x 27.94 cm x 17.145 cm