Buck Creek Jazz Band Button: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This button is from the Buck Creek Jazz Band, in 1987. It is made of white paper with black ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:

10th Anniversary [image of trumpet] Buck Creek Jazz Band Celebration 1977-1987

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.

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 Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, Metronome, and American Rag. He also authored Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. Items in this collection (2011.3086) were acquired from Levin’s attendance at Jazz Festivals, conferences, and other music events.

Materials, dates and provenance

• date made: 1987
• user: Levin, Floyd
• Object Name: button
• Physical Description: metal (overall material)
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 1/4 in x 3 1/8 in; x .635 cm x 7.9375 cm
• Measurements: overall: 3/16 in x 3 in; .47625 cm x 7.62 cm
• place made: United States
• ID Number: 2011.3086.013
• nonaccession number: 2011.3086
• catalog number: 2011.3086.013
• Credit Line: Gift of Lucille Levin
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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