Creole Rice Yerba Buena Jazz Band Button
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content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This button is for the Creole Rice Yerba Buena Jazz Band in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is a round button made of gold paper with black 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>CREOLE RICE YERBA BUENA<br>JAZZ BAND<br>THE<br>FAMOUS MELODY<br>BOYS<br>OF<br>NEW ORLEANS<br>LOUISIANA<br>(504) 282-4802</p>
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content: <p>Jacques Gauthé (1939- 2007) was a French clarinetist and saxophonist. He began his career around 1957 performing Traditional and Dixieland Jazz with his own band and Jazz luminaries such as Mezz Mezzrow, Don Byas, Benny Waters, and Sidney Bechet. In 1972, Gauthé moved to New Orleans and by 1979 was the leader of the Creole Rice Jazz Band. In 1984, he received extraordinary praise from American Jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer Lu Watters and founder of the Yerba Buena Jazz Band, when Watters permitted Gauthé the use of his historic band name. From that time the group was called the Creole Rice Yerba Buena Jazz Band.</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: Illinois, La Salle
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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: 2011.3086.169
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content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.169
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content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 3/8 in; x 6.0325 cm