The 1961 Playboy All-Stars

The 1961 Playboy All-StarsNineteen sixty in the world of jazz, as the newspapers saw it, was the Year of Contention, with riots at Newport and other bashes. Jazz fans could see beyond that. More concerned with new chords than with discord, they saw it as the Year of Invention.There were new uses of jazz. John Lewis' The Comedy, described as "a jazz entertainment" integrating the Modern Jazz Quartet and a group of ballet dancers, was premiered in Paris. Gunther Schuller, eloquent spokes...