Floyd Levin (September 24, 1922 – January 29, 2007) was an American jazz historian and writer whose articles were published in many magazines, including Down Beat, Jazz Journal International, American Rag, and Metronome.
[1] 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 chronicled his first-hand encounters with many jazz musicians such as: Benny Carter, Barney Bigard, Artie Shaw, James P. Johnson and Louis Armstrong.
[2][3] Levin was instrumental in raising the funds for the statue of Louis Armstrong in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans.
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