<i>Esquire</i> Magazine Award, presented to Duke Ellington
date: label: presentation date
content: 1946
name: label: recipient
content: Ellington, Duke
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This award was presented to Duke Ellington from <i>Esquire</i> magazine in 1946. It features a stylized gold-tone statue of a man playing a trumpet, <i>Esquire</i> magazine’s pop-eyed mascot “Esky,” on a brown-stained wooden base with an embossed and engraved metal plate. The metal plate is marked:</p>
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content: <p>Esquire's<br>ALL AMERICAN BAND<br>BAND-GOLD AWARD<br>AWARDED TO<br>DUKE ELLINGTON<br>1946</p>
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content: <p><i>Esquire</i> is an American men’s magazine founded in 1933. The magazine featured its first jazz awards, All-American Jazz All Stars and All-American Jazz Band, chosen by <i>Esquire’s</i> board of leading jazz artists, critics, and writers, in 1944. The inaugural winners included Billie Holiday, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Al Casey, Oscar Pettiford, and Sidney Catlett.</p>
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content: <p>The “Esky” mascot created by African American cartoonist E. Simms Campbell (1906-1971).</p>
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content: <p>An ad for the <i>Esquire</i> awards appeared in a January 5, 1946 issue of <i>Billboard</i> magazine indicating the list of winners would be in the <i>Esquire</i> February 1946 issue, which sold for 50 cents. <i>Esquire</i> also published a 1946 Jazz book that featured articles, photographs, and biographies of the 1946 winners, which sold for $1.00. Additionally, a concert presented by the winners, and emceed by Orson Welles in New York, would be aired over the entire ABC network.</p>
label: Location
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
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0369.344
label: accession number
content: 1989.0369
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0369.344
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 6 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in; 40.005 cm x 15.5575 cm x 15.5575 cm