[Utah Girl]

I didn't like jazz hardly at all, until I attended a music event a couple of years ago. It was an evening of "Music through the ages." Very well done, and the jazz part was superb. They did improvisational jazz, and it was marvelous.

[Mr. Mulliner]

I don't much care for classical music, but I know it's because I never learned to appreciate it. I would never deny the genius behind classical music just because its full meaning is not accessible to me.

I didn't care much for jazz until I started to pay attention to the passion with which its fans spoke of it. That convinced me that there was something worth learning to appreciate there and I began to listen and even took a course in it.

Now I am convinced, as many people around the world are, that jazz is one of the greatest gifts that America has given to the world. Any American who hasn't learned to appreciate the likes of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and many, many others is, in my opinion, an incomplete America.

But heck, we're all lacking in some way or another so we're all incomplete.