Floyd Levin (September 24, 1922 – January 29, 2007) was a jazz historian and writer whose articles were published in many magazines, including ''

Down Beat ' (styled in all caps) is an American music magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years. The publication was established in 1934 in Chi ...

'', '' Jazz Journal International'', ''American Rag'', and '' Metronome''."Floyd Levin, 84; influential jazz journalist and historian"
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Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...

''. Retrieved 11 June 2013. He received several awards for his work, including the Leonard Feather Communicator Award, given annually by the Los Angeles Jazz Society. He is the author of ''Classic Jazz: A Personal View of the Music and the Musicians'', which chronicles his first-hand encounters with many jazz musicians such as: Benny Carter,

Barney Bigard Albany Leon "Barney" Bigard (March 3, 1906 – June 27, 1980) was an American jazz clarinetist known for his 15-year tenure with Duke Ellington. He also played tenor saxophone. Biography Bigard was born in New Orleans to Creole parents, Ale ...

, Artie Shaw,

James P. Johnson James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key ...

and

Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era ...

. Levin was instrumental in raising the funds for the statue of Louis Armstrong in

Louis Armstrong Park Louis Armstrong Park is a park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter. In the 1960s a controversial urban renewal project leveled a substantial portion of the Tremé neigh ...

, New Orleans.

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Floyd Levin
NAMM Oral History Interview (2002)
Floyd Levin Archival Collection Finding Aid
1922 births 2007 deaths American music historians 20th-century American historians American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers {{US-historian-stub