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1959

Playboy Jazz in Chicago: Two years after launching the annual Playboy Jazz Poll, Playboy Enterprises hosted a three-day jazz extravaganza at Chicago Stadium. Five shows featuring nearly all of the jazz greats on the scene at the time drew more than 68,000 fans to the first American indoor jazz festival. Many of the artists subsequently appeared at the Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles.

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