Costa Mesa Classic Jazz Orange County Festival Badge: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This badge is from the Costa Mesa Classic Jazz Orange County Festival. It is made of white paper with multi-color ink, laminated in plastic. There is a gold cord attached to the top of the badge. The badge is printed:

PATRON Floyd Levin Costa Mesa Classic Jazz Orange County Festival

The Orange County Classic Jazz Festival, Inc. was formed in Costa Mesa, California, in 1995. It is a non-profit organization that supports a yearly weekend of concerts of Traditional Jazz from the 1920s to the 1950s.

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

• user: Levin, Floyd
• Object Name: badge
• Physical Description: plastic (overall material)
• Physical Description: cord (overall material)
• Physical Description: ink (overall material)
• Physical Description: paper (overall material)
• Measurements: overall: 18 in x 3 1/2 in; 45.72 cm x 8.89 cm
• place made: United States: California, Costa Mesa
• ID Number: 2011.3086.124
• nonaccession number: 2011.3086
• catalog number: 2011.3086.124
• Credit Line: Gift of Lucille Levin
• Data Source: National Museum of American History

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