The 1963 Playboy Jazz Poll
October, 1962
With monterey flourishing on the West Coast, and a reorganized Newport Festival once more echoing the welcome sounds of live, authentic jazz in a salubrious, noncommercial atmosphere in the East, 1962 turned into a festive year for the hot and the cool. This being the case, we fully expect this year's Playboy Jazz Poll, America's biggest, most respected jazz consensus, to handsomely outpull all previous pulsetakings. The Jazz Poll ballot, as in years past, is made up of only those musicians who...
