Vail Jazz Party Button
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content: Levin, Floyd
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content: <p>This button is from the Vail Jazz Party in Vail, Colorado. It is made of pink/peach paper with black ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. These buttons were given to all Jazz Party goers as admission tickets and to simplify the billing for food and beverages. The button is printed:</p>
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content: <p>VAIL<br>[image of trumpet]<br>214<br>JAZZ</p>
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content: <p>Dick Gibson, a Denver businessman, sponsored the first Colorado Jazz Party in 1963 as a means to reinvigorate the jazz scene in Colorado. These private gatherings brought together musicians and fans from all over the world in an intimate setting of weekend-long jam sessions. Initially hosted at the Jerome Hotel in Aspen, the Jazz Party became an annual event, moving to the Broadmoor Hotel, a resort located high in the mountains above Colorado Springs, then to Denver. This Jazz Party format has since inspired multiple other jazz parties throughout the United States.</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
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content: United States: Colorado, Vail
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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: 2011.3086.189
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content: 2011.3086
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content: 2011.3086.189
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content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
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content: metal (overall material)
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content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 7/8 in; x 4.7625 cm