JAZZ MYTH NO. 11

Where did Feather dig up this garbage about “Satchmo’s” tour to the U.S.S.R. falling through because it might have been too successful and would’ve caused riots and pro-American sentiment? It so happens that the State Department asked him to tour the U.S.S.R., but “Satchmo” refused in protest to the treatment his people were getting here in the good old U.S.A.--so there!

ABEL PENA

Los Angeles