Playboy After Hours

December, 1957

Ballots in the second annual Playboy Jazz Poll fill our office near to overflowing. In a tabulation of the first returns, Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington are running neck and neck for Leader of the 1958 Playboy Jazz all-stars, with Count Basie and Dizzy Gillespie close behind. Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Bobby Hackett, Shorty Rogers, Roy Eldridge and May-nard Ferguson are all early front-runners for the four-man trumpet team; J. J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Bob Brook-meyer, J...