The 1964 Playboy All-Stars

The 1964 Playboy All-StarsAlthough there was a profusion of new faces in the 1963 jazz panorama, the pre-eminent figure during the past year was the resplendently resilient Duke Ellington. While maintaining an arduous traveling schedule with his band, Ellington also had an unusually full composing agenda. In addition to writing originals for his orchestra, Ellington composed and staged one of his most ambitious works, My People, a history of the Negro in America during the past hundred years (fi...