Sweet & Hot Music Charter Member Pin
date: label: date made
content: 1996
name: label: user
content: Levin, Floyd
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This pin is from the Sweet & Hot Music Festival in Los Angeles, California, in 1996.. It is made of cast brass with red, white, and blue enamel, with a butterfly-style clutch. The button is cast:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>SWEET & HOT MUSIC<br>[Sweet & Hot logo]<br>MEMBER<br>CHARTER</p>
label: Description
content: <p>Founded in 1996, The Sweet & Hot Music Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the music of the 1920s through 50s. The foundation produces an annual event in Los Angeles which support jazz education programs for Los Angeles area high school students.</p>
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content: <p>The foundation also honors legends in classic jazz by placing permanent bronze plaques with their names, in the ground surrounding the pool and garden area at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel. Known as the “Sweet & Hot Music Walk of Fame,” it features jazz greats Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Benny Goodman, Cole Porter, Lionel Hampton and Billie Holiday.</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: California, Los Angeles
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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: 2011.3086.056
label: nonaccession number
content: 2011.3086
label: catalog number
content: 2011.3086.056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (front color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (front color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 7/8 in x 1/4 in; 2.54 cm x 2.2225 cm x .635 cm