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The '50s were a great decade for jazz sales

The advent of long-playing records and stereophonic records coincided with the evolution of jazz from big band dance hall music to small ensemble be bop and post bop. Jazz as America's "classical" music was also somewhat aligned with the conservative social mood of the country.

While I agree with your assessment that the '50s may have been the beginning of the end, as jazz transitioned away from dance music, the most successful artists like Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra still owed their underlying musical support to jazz.

I would argue that jazz in many ways DID die with Lion's retirement. Sure, it would continue to be played (albeit often with electric instruments and increasingly unworkable "fusion" arrangements) and celebrated up through today. But with the occasional exception, jazz is almost always at its best when it raises the spectre of its golden age, emulates its pioneers or most explosive and classic musicians and composers. If you focus on the rule and not the exceptions to the rule--of which there are some great examples--you'll have to admit I am right.

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