Mike of N., In case anyone misunderstood your post, "Puttin' On The Ritz" is Berlin, not Gershwin. ("I Got Rhythm" is G.G.)

Y'know, folks, the thing that makes it hard for me--and maybe some of the rest of you--to state categorically whether I like "jazz" or not is that it's such a BROAD category! I watched the whole 10-hour Ken Burns documentary on "Jazz" and realized that I lot of it (blues, dixieland, swing, jive, R&B, and some improv., etc.) I tend to like--almost any "jazz" that has a strong beat and you can dance to--, but that some of it (e.g., most be-bop and what I call "elevator jazz") leaves me cold or bored.

I guess I like it if it moves me through its rhythm (like Brubeck's "Time Out") and/or the emotional content (like Miles Davis's "Sketches Of Spain"). But if it just seems to ramble all over the place and be rather amorphous, it just turns into background noise for me. To each her own, I guess.

Genie