Beiderbecke, Bix Levin, Floyd

Description

This button is from the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival in Davenport, Iowa, in 1995. It is made of black paper with black, red, blue, and yellow ink covered with a clear film, on a two-piece metal button with a pin back. The button is printed:BIX BEIDERBECKEBix:The Chicago Years19 [image of stamp with Beiderbecke] 95MEMORIAL JAZZ FESTIVALThe Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival is a three-day music festival held on the first weekend of August in Davenport, Iowa, to commemorate home-town jazz musician and composer Leon Bismark “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) .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.Currently not on view

Record Contributed By

National Museum of American History

Record Harvested From

Smithsonian Institution