Monterey Jazz Festival Badge
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: user
content: Carter, Benny
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Benny Carter’s badge to the 1984 Monterey Jazz Festival held in Monterey, California. The badge is a pink laminated card with Carter’s photograph and a metal clip.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Monterey Jazz Festival held its debut in 1958 and is one of the longest consecutively running jazz festivals. Founded by Jimmy Lyons and his colleague Ralph Gleason, the festival is a celebration of jazz’s legacy through performances by top jazz artists as well as educational programs. Since 1984 (the date on this badge) organizers have sent festival musicians into schools around the Monterey County School District to work with music students.</p>
label: Description
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. Carter was a featured performer in the 1984 Monterey Jazz Festival. 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: 2007.0013.08
label: accession number
content: 2007.0013
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0013.08
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 3 3/4 in x 1/2 in; 8.89 cm x 9.525 cm x 1.27 cm