Jazz Times Convention Badge
date: label: date made
content: 1993
name: label: user
content: Carter, Benny
notes: label: Description
content: <p>Benny Carter’s guest of honor badge to the Ninth Jazz Times Convention held in Park Central Hotel, New York City, October 6-9, 1993. The badge is a white laminated card with black and blue ink, attached to a pink chord with a metal hook. An illustration of the New York City skyline is shown.</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Jazz Times convention, created by owners of the Jazz Times magazine, held its first meeting in 1984 as space for musicians, radio programmers, record company executives, agents, club owners, music critics, and other industry professionals. Aside from performances by top jazz artists, the convention also features panels to gauge and discuss current topics in jazz; and one theme often discussed is how jazz music can reach a wider audience.</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: New York, New York
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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: 2007.0013.07
label: accession number
content: 2007.0013
label: catalog number
content: 2007.0013.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: badge
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
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content: cord (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 24 in x 3 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 60.96 cm x 8.89 cm x .635 cm