Detroit has this public FM (WRCJ 90.9) that has become my saraNalayam after the V98.7 smooth jazz FM got sold off...this station typically does WCM during daytime (morning drive & evening drive times are WCM virundhoos) but switches to "traditional" jazz in the evenings and run till my late nights.
In the beginning, my tastebuds could at the max take smooth jazz only (Kenny G kinds) and found it too difficult to listen to the real jazz...
I thought, let me try to "relate" this to something & see whether I can appreciate...on one evening, when waiting for the boy in parking lot, with no CD on the dashboard, I switched on 90.9 and had an opportunity to peacefully listen to unadulterated jazz (don't know what composition / which artist etc)...but appadiyE midhakkuRa feeling! Also, my ear buds felt exactly like listening to some ICM kachchEri. There's definitely some connection between these two (i.e. karnAtaka sangeetham and jazz)...
End effect : now I can enjoy 'sAyndhu sAyndhu' in a way I couldn't have appreciated sometime back - say, a year ago :-)
Not readily palatable - like 'ennOdu vA vA enRu' (which seems to be the biggest fav among masses, if one goes by the youtube hits it gets) - but tasty nevertheless...