The 1963 Playboy All-Stars
February, 1963
Jazz in 1962 continued to accumulate prestige -- especially abroad -- but the dues at home became stiffer for many musicians who would have preferred to alchemize plaudits into cash.Internationally, hip listeners began to appear in unprecedented places. In June, for example, the new Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Dobrynin, expressed reservations about the first official American jazz tour of the Soviet Union, then under way. He didn't object to jazz. He simply thought Benny Goo...
