Sinatra sits at attention while Steve Allen, a piano player and composer himself, studies a score. Both men were jazz aficionados, and very critical of rock & roll through their careers. Two years after this photo was taken, in fact, Sinatra told Western World magazine that rock was "sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons. It manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth."