The 1968 Playboy Jazz & Pop Poll

The 1968 Playboy Jazz & Pop PollA top Jazz leader has recorded an album called If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em!, in which he does songs out of the pop-rock-folk bag of such luminaries as Petula Clark, Bob Dylan and the Beatles. Many rock groups are making jazzlike improvisations central to their acts. A number of combos have integrated jazz instrumentalists and rock musicians. Jazz critics have begun nodding approvingly in the direction of other contemporary musical idioms. A national jazz magaz...