Buck Creek Jazz Band Button
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content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is from the Buck Creek Jazz Band. It is made of white paper with black and red ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:</p>
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content: <p>"HEAR THE<br>Buck Creek<br>Jazz Band<br>PLAY"<br>[image of trumpet]</p>
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content: <p>The Buck Creek Jazz Band was formed in Temple Hills, Maryland, in 1977. Originally comprised of seven musicians, the band plays Dixieland and traditional Jazz. The band has played at every major traditional Jazz festival in the United States and has been featured on several Jazz cruises. The Buck Creek Jazz Band has made several recordings under their own Buck Creek Records label.</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>
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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 Lucille Levin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.3086.166
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content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.1466
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content: button
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/4 in; x 5.715 cm