The Playboy Interview 30Th Anniversary

The Playboy Interview 30th AnniversaryIt was 1962, and Hugh Hefner was thinking of a new feature for his eight-year-old Playboy magazine. Sifting through unpublished material, editors obliged with a partial manuscript in which a fledgling journalist named Alex Haley had interviewed jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. The musician spoke less of blue notes than of discord between blacks and whites, and Hef found his words compelling. Haley was dispatched to question Davis further, and when the completed i...