| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1 | Ros Glickman | It's all been said above. BBC has surely damaged things music-wise - what used to be a wonderful Sunday full of 'our kind of music' has now disappeared into the late hours. The regular boys - David Jacobs, Malcolm Laycock, Russell Davies et al - all removed and buried in lesser listened to slots. |
| 2 | Anne Perks | This seems a very strange decision. Jazz is hardly a minority interest in this country. |
| 3 | Anonymous | |
| 4 | Mark Austin | |
| 5 | Andy Cooper | yes I want more Jazz on the BBC! |
| 6 | Renee Cooper | Yes more jazz on the BBC, Bands like Andy Cooper's Top 8 should be heard by more people than the occasional theatre! |
| 7 | Anonymous | Whilst jazz maybe regarded as a minority genre it has become so because the BBC's promotion of it to all has dwindled and ceased. In America and Europe the music is growing in popularity with all ages - why? It has airtime. British jazz will die with the help of the BBC |
| 8 | Bert Booth | |
| 9 | Beryl Korman | Let's keep the variety on Radio 2 please. |
| 10 | DANNY & ANGIE | WE AT THE WOOLPACK SUPPORT JAZZ SO SHOULD THE BBC CHEERS |
| 11 | George Haslam | |
| 12 | Amy Roberts | |
| 13 | Richard Leach | I just hope that the 'bright young things' at the BBC remember that there is a sizeable part of the 'mature' population that still relys on the radio for its entertainment. Jazz should be better represented for its many enthusiasts. |
| 14 | Rob Henneveld - Yes2Jazz Agency | On behalve of many jazz lovers from the Netherlands! |
| 15 | DAVID LELAND | Since my early teens, jazz has been an inspiration throughout my creative life. Radio played an essential part in this world of constant discovery. "The Best of Jazz" and J"azz Records Requests" has always been a shining cut above all other jazz stations because its only agenda has been to reflect the eclectic tastes and discoveries of the producers and presenters. Please keep this wonderful stream of inspiration available for enthusiastic listeners. Culturally, it's not just important, it's ESSENTIAL. |
| 16 | Paul Willmott | |
| 17 | Rob Brouwer | |
| 18 | Anonymous | best of jazz just has to come back where it belongs! |
| 19 | Chris Walker | It is vitally important to the future of jazz music in this Country that much more music from the traditional jazz and swing era is heard on the BBC. If they fail to respond to this petition they will, in my opinion, be responsible for yet another nail in the coffin of British Jazz Music and the many talented musicians who perform it. |
| 20 | Colin Wood | |
| 21 | Malcolm Swire | It's a disgrace |
| 22 | David Hirst | |
| 23 | Ian Parry | Looking at the total output on BBC radio I find it difficult to see how Jazz, in particular New Orleans and Traditional Jazz , cannot be fitted in. It may be a minority interest, but other minorities are covered adequately, so should Jazz. |
| 24 | John Carstairs Hallam | For me, the greatest value for all genres of Jazz listeners was that we were presented with material outside our (often) narrow confines. Thus, the Fletcher Henderson anorak would find unexpected value in contemporary jazz music. |
| 25 | Maria Huggett | Jazz is very surpressed in this Country! |
| 26 | David Baker | |
| 27 | Paul Adams | |
| 28 | George Duncan | For goodness sake .... bring our kind of music back in our lives .... please. |
| 29 | Murray Patterson | |
| 30 | SHEILA PUNTIS | |
| 31 | M. Jones | |
| 32 | Manfred Dax | |
| 33 | Ronald Poole | |
| 34 | Andy | |
| 35 | Bob Martin | Great music and wit. |
| 36 | Jeff Matthews | Lets have more jazz programmes on BBC TV & Radio. Not everyone in the UK is under 25 and only interested in pop music. Start considering the baby boomers in this country. |
| 37 | Keith W Shone | |
| 38 | Les Bull | Jazz is lamentably under-represented on BBC Radio and Television.
There is plenty of room on both mediums for (a) live Jazz performances and (b) weekly (preferably daily) presentations of the vast store of Jazz recordings.
You should drop some of the 'alternative comedy' with canned audiences which is done to death on Radio, and which almost always not even faintly amusing. Let's have some JAZZ please !!! |
| 39 | Fred Lindop | Radio 2 seems to have withdrawn from presenting jazz on a regular basis. It's clearly a minority interest, but surely worthy of a couple of hours a week. |
| 40 | Brian Pearce | Surely just one hour of recorded Jazz is not too much to ask for!!!!!!! |
| 41 | Richard Orme | I go to several major jazz festivals each year, and I know of thousands of jazz enthusiasts throughout Britain. Why should they be deprived of regular jazz programmes on the BBC? |
| 42 | Jack Horwood | |
| 43 | Jack Horwood | |
| 44 | Anonymous | This is a total disgrace - too many programmes are being shelved and others for minority groups with extreme tastes being aired instead. Furthermore some of us who pay licence fees resent the salaries, bonus payments and expenses being paid to certain individuals who do not give value for money. I would hate to see the BBC lose their licence fee but you are shooting yourselves in the foot. |
| 45 | Geoff Miller | |
| 46 | Jane Brabyn | This programme has appealed to a varied audience, keeping the jazz fraternity in touch with what is going on as well as educating those of us who are interested in jazz but do not know much about it. It is very sad to see such a good formula disappear. |
| 47 | richard slee | |
| 48 | iris slee | |
| 49 | Ralph Erle | |
| 50 | Scott Hammond | |