| # | Name | Comments |
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| 501 | Caroline johnson-Marshall | End the Best of Jazz! Good way to antagonise a lot of people. Jazz music underlies so much good music currently. It is part of our cultural heritage. Our musical history, and ongoing musical development. By this kind of decision BBC shows itself to be in the dark ages. |
| 502 | jim hutchinson | |
| 503 | Ian Gorman | |
| 504 | Derrick Cogger | Monday R2 8.00 p.m - Now crap !
Humph changed my life when I was 12. Now 70 what do I do with the rest of it?
BBC are unaware of its' responsibilities for public broadcasting |
| 505 | L.W.Preston | |
| 506 | David Brownlow | |
| 507 | william harper | There is a necessity for a jazz programme which covers the whole spectrum of jazz as opposed to a "melange" of world & pop music which occasionally includes so called jazz artistes eg Amy WHINEhouse , Jamie Cullum et al. |
| 508 | Anonymous | how can you take jazz off? shocking |
| 509 | Dr Malcolm Hogarth | The withdrawal of 'The Best of Jazz' is another step in the dumbing down of BBC Radio. |
| 510 | John Amos | I agree, 'Best of Jazz' must continue as the only national programme to present all varieties of jazz |
| 511 | Stuart Seydel | |
| 512 | william palmer | i would like llike to hear the best of jazz back on radio 2.there is not enough traditional jazz on the radio |
| 513 | Michael Collier | The South West of England is already a jazz free zone as far as the BBC is concerned, now we are to be starved of jazz on radio 2. How are the highly talented young musicians of today going to make a living as a professional jazz musician if their chances of being heard on any form of broadcast medium are next to nothing? |
| 514 | Bev Pegg | It would be nice to keep the Best of Jazz on Radio. |
| 515 | Anonymous | Please don't let Jazz Record Requests die. The BBC did enough damage last time in the '70's, producing an entire generation of jazz ignoramuses. |
| 516 | Mary Litchfield | I agree with all of the comments above |
| 517 | Ann Alexander | I have just started to learn about jazz and this programme is needed by me so that I can go further. What would Humphrey Lyttleton have thought about this programme being withdrawn? He must be turning in his grave! |
| 518 | Simon Ashenden | I'm sure Humph would endorse this cause, or at least shake his trumpet at the Fat Contoller. |
| 519 | Butch Thompson | I'm a professional musician and a longtime admirer of Humph's many achievements, including his stewardship of The Best of Jazz, which I have heard online for quite some time. It would be a shame to delete this program, and I am certain another host could be found to handle the job. There was only one Humph, but don't let that stop you, please. thanks...... |
| 520 | bill gallon | This programme was arguably the best programme ever presented by the BBC on jazz and as a tribute to Humph it should be continued. |
| 521 | Michael Jeffery Jones | I miss Best of Jazz and request that it is reinstated |
| 522 | Anonymous | More traditional jazz, please. |
| 523 | John Hale | If this is not possible, why not repeat e.g. Alyn Shyptons
superb broadcasts about great New Orleans Jazz Musicians |
| 524 | C.Reilley | Would this ever happen to Classical Music? |
| 525 | Gerald White | |
| 526 | Ralph Laing | |
| 527 | Michael Colin Jackson | |
| 528 | Bill Dickens | Knowing the perverse authorities in the BBC they would probably put the king of smut, Jonathan Ross,
on air as the presenter ! |
| 529 | jim chambers | |
| 530 | peter clancy | |
| 531 | Martin Litton | I learnt much of my jazz-possibly the most significant music of the 2oth century-from BBC radio's The Best Of Jazz.' Pop and Rock music has spread like a cancer since the 1960's, marginalising much more interesting, emotionally and intellectually, music. Losing a programme such as the above-mentioned would be injurous to the cultural health of the country where young people have precious little exposure to good music. |
| 532 | Martin Litton | I learnt much of my jazz-possibly the most significant music of the 2oth century-from BBC radio's The Best Of Jazz.' Pop and Rock music has spread like a cancer since the 1960's, marginalising much more interesting, emotionally and intellectually, music. Losing a programme such as the above-mentioned would be injurous to the cultural health of the country where young people have precious little exposure to good music. |
| 533 | Keith Hunter | |
| 534 | Roy Sear | As a working jazz musician, I completely agree with the points raised in this petition and I also regret the withdrawal of 'The Jazz Hour', on BBC Radio Solent, I have relied on programmes such as these to keep informed about the jazz scene locally, nationally and internationally. I think the BBC is doing us a dis-service, in the jazz world. |
| 535 | Andrew Mulligan | |
| 536 | Dr Martin Payne | the very least that should be done in tribute to one of the greatest broadcasters ever. |
| 537 | Giles Harris | |
| 538 | Ray Chester | I cannot understand why the BBC should cut its jazz coverage when it is obvious that there is an increase in interest in the music - high attendances at the various jazz festivals around the country being only one example. |
| 539 | Kathryn Jones | |
| 540 | Paul Booth | |
| 541 | Carole Williams | |
| 542 | paul mcfadden | |
| 543 | Neill Fozard | Shame on you. |
| 544 | Bob Peacock | |
| 545 | Anonymous | |
| 546 | Rob Bruce | |
| 547 | Don Fairley | |
| 548 | Laurie Cooper | Typical BBC. They know more about what type of music we want to listen to than we do. According to them we should all be listening to rubbish old 70's & 80's pop like the majority of the great unwashed. |
| 549 | ALAN CORBETT | WHY DESTROY SOMETHING SO VALUABLE? |
| 550 | Ruth Baker | |