The March of Jazz Medallion
date: label: date made
content: 2000
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This medallion is from Arbors Records in Clearwater, Florida. It is a round clear plastic disc with a smaller disc attached to each side. There is an image of Flip Phillips on the reverse side. The obverse is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>CELEBRATING<br>FLIP PHILLIPS'<br>85TH BIRTHDAY<br>THE<br>MARCH<br>OF JAZZ<br>2000</p>
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content: <p>Flip Phillips, born Joseph Edward Filipelli (1915-2001), was an American jazz tenor saxophone and clarinet player.</p>
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content: <p>Arbors Records is an independent label founded by Mat and Rachel Domber in Clearwater, Florida, in 1989. The label focuses on swing music and Dixieland jazz, and has added contemporary and classic jazz to its roster. </p>
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content: <p>Floyd Levin (1922-2007) was a Los Angeles textile manufacturer who turned his passion for jazz into a second career as an influential jazz journalist and historian. His numerous reviews, profiles, and articles were published in magazines such as <i>Down Beat</i>, <i>Jazz Journal International</i>, <i>Metronome</i>, and <i>American Rag</i>. He also authored <i>Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians</i>. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Florida, Clearwater
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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 Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.104
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.104
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medallion
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 5/16 in; x 8.41375 cm