The 1957 Playboy All-Stars

The 1957 Playboy All-StarsAll the cats joined in to make the first annual Playboy jazz poll the biggest, most successful popularity poll ever conducted in the field of jazz music. The last of the more than 20,000 ballots are in and the more than 430,000 individual votes have been counted. The winners, selected by readers for the 1957 Playboy All-Star Jazz Band, are a real Who's Who of jazzdom.Stan Kenton, who has done as much to popularize jazz as any other man in America, is the readers' overwh...