Music: Jazz on the Campus

"If they ever turn professional," said Bandleader Stan Kenton, "I know a lot of guys who aren't going to like it." He was standing in Notre Dame's sprawling field house, where 200 cats had all but blown the roof off in the hippest college bash of them all—the second annual College Jazz Festival. When the musicians packed their instruments and headed back to their campuses last week, they left the panel of five judges- convinced that college combos these days are playing some of the finest and freshest jazz in the land.

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