Jazz - For all the jazz lovers

I didn't know where to post this. Peggy Lee certainly has jazz roots but also worked in the pop and easy listening genres, but I love her early stuff a lot. This article is amazing with lots of details about her life. Worth the read, if you're into the 30s - 50s era music scenes.

I found this bit especially interesting:

In considering the arc of her career, and particularly the difficulties of broadening her audience in the late 1960s and beyond, she might be usefully compared to jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who suffered from the same problem, and tried aggressively to overcome it as Lee did. Davis, by the late 1960s, found there were fewer places to play jazz and that the audience was growing older, as young people flocked to rock. Davis managed this mid-life artistic, professional (and personal) crisis by changing the way he dressed, adopting the hip, new clothing styles of the late 1960s that disdained the Brooks Brothers establishment look that Davis had previously cultivated. He adopted rock influences openly in his music. As a result of this, he was able to market his music by playing in rock venues and thus gave himself a new lease on life as a relevant artist, even though he lost a good many older fans.

I've not thought to compare Peggy Lee to Miles Davis before but this makes some sense.