Jazz Club of Sarasota Button
date: label: date made
content: 1991
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Jazz Club of Sarasota, Florida, in 1991. It made of gold-tone plastic with black lettering. There is evidence of a straight-style pin back. The button is printed:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>PATRON<br>the [image of trumpet] jazz club<br>of Sarasota<br>1991</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Jazz Club of Sarasota was founded by retired advertising executive Hal Davis. The club started as a casual get-together of jazz enthusiasts listening to music in the home of Hal and Evelyn Davis. By 1980, the club held its first concert featuring American jazz guitarist John Paul “Bucky” Pizzarelli (1926-2020) and his son John. The Jazz Club continued to expand its scope and reach to include a yearly program of concerts and lectures as well as school residency and scholarship programs.</p>
label: Description
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, Sarasota
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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: 2011.3086.082
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.082
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 5/8 in; x 6.6675 cm