Playbill

February, 1958

When Playboy First opened its pages to a popularity poll in jazz, the editors of this magazine were a bit uneasy about the possible outcome. No one was suggesting that the way to pick the best jazz musicians of the year was to pass out ballots to the million readers of a popular men's magazine (the primary purpose of the poll is to create a greater interest in jazz within the publication and it is an entertaining way of reporting on the current jazz scene), but the general level of the Playboy p...