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 a green front and black 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 5<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: 2007.0013.15
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content: 2007.0013
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content: 2007.0013.15
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content: button
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
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label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in; x 4.445 cm