Greentown Jazz Band: Museum Object and Cultural History
Greentown Jazz Band: date made: late 1980s. user: Levin, Floyd. Object Name: button.
The object in the museum catalogue
p>This button is from the Greentown Jazz Band, late 1980s. It is made of white paper with green and red ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button. The button is printed:
The Greentown Jazz Band was formed in Ljublijana, Slovenia, in 1982. The group performs traditional and New Orleans jazz.
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: late 1980s
- user: Levin, Floyd
- Object Name: button
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Physical Description: metal (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 1 1/2 in; x 3.81 cm
- ID Number: 2011.3086.162
- nonaccession number: 2011.3086
- catalog number: 2011.3086.162
- Credit Line: Gift of Lucille Levin
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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