Playboy After Hours
February, 1960
Is jazz dying? John Mehegan, practitioner, student and teacher of jazz, tends toward that conclusion. "Here is an art form," he says in an article in Saturday Review ". . . barely perceived in all its myriad manifestations when suddenly the whole thing seems to have blown up. . . . The voice of jazz ... is slowly becoming the voice of the turtle." In spite of the unprecedented activity in jazz today, there is the stuff of truth in this dour view, for the forces of conformity...
