The 1959 Playboy All-Stars
February, 1959
The 1959 Playboy All-StarsIndustrials boomed. Utilities surged upward in an unbroken line. Rails were bullish. And jazz was at an all-time high.That's the way it was as the year ended. The aura of prosperity around the country in general, as reflected by the stock market in particular, had its perfect musical counterpart in jazz. As the Dow Jones averages rose, the Jonah Jones sales reports mounted in a parallel line.The third annual Playboy Jazz Poll, the only plebiscite of its kind in which th...