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The Women Behind Playboy Jazz.
The name Playboy is irrefutably synonymous with Hugh Hefner, bunny ears and nude centerfolds. It is also synonymous with "jazz," and suddenly a different slew of names and visuals come to mind: the grand Hollywood Bowl, warm summer days and nights, a couple of dates with Bill Cosby, producer George Wein, and wonderful music played by the best jazz legends in the world.
Hugh Hefner's relationship with jazz began at the inception of Playboy Magazine, when he featured the Dorsey Brothers in his inaugural issue, forty-nine years ago in 1953 and the first jazz interview with trumpet icon Miles Davis in 1962. Jazz has worked its way into the pages of Playboy ever since then, and in 1959, in the city of Chicago, the first Playboy Jazz Festival took place. That first Ameri...See the full content of this document
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