chas, I may have misread your reply, and if I did I apologize, but it sounded like you thought Steve was putting the jazz group down, and knowing him as I do, I KNOW he was not doing that, but just stating his experience ... after all, he WAS listening to the jazz group ...

I certainly agree with the comments about venue ... I love listening to good jazz groups ( I guess there may be a couple of bad ones around), but I will say that if I go to someplace like Hawaii, I am not going there to listen to jazz groups unless some venue is featuring someone special ... I am looking to be entertained by some of the good local musicians/singers/dancers, performing their traditional music ...