| # | Name | Comments |
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| 351 | Mee-Ching Ho | |
| 352 | David Jordan | |
| 353 | Anonymous | There is little enough Jazz on the radio!! |
| 354 | Hamish McGregor | Being a regular listener to The Best of Jazz I would be very dissapointed if this excellent programme was taken off air. |
| 355 | Colin Hynd | |
| 356 | Peter Worsley | Not only has the BBC now abandoned historic jazz but also, light music, and light classical such was provided by Brian Kay and Richard Baker. It has also removed most dance band and brass band recordings. For those over 60 a whole era of broadcast and recorded music has been swept aside. You probably won't know what I mean, however, because you are probably too young to know. It is a national disgrace that the retired population is no longer musically catered for. |
| 357 | Matthew Rooke | Humphrey Lyttelton was a braodcase rof immense stature but his one true lvoe was jazz and he wouyld have put the itnerests of jazz ahead of his own persona interests as a matter of course. His death is a great loss but please do not compound this by eliminating a show which has done so much to keep a diversity of jazz music on the mainstream airwaves. I hope that the BBC will in light of its charter responsibilities as a public service broadcaster, uniquely funded by the licence fee, review any decision to withdraw this programme. |
| 358 | Cedric Knight | |
| 359 | Graeme Wilson | |
| 360 | Colin Cook | |
| 361 | Sian Richards | |
| 362 | Caroline | |
| 363 | Catherine MacLennan | |
| 364 | nick purnell | |
| 365 | Paul Moore | I live in Israel and play jazz , when i lived in the UK 30 yrs ago BBC jazz programmes were great , sadly like most intersting things that may not be main stream , you trash them .The BBC just gets worse. . soon you will become just another boring News channel that gets things wrong. |
| 366 | Julie Plant | |
| 367 | Isla Duncan | |
| 368 | Iain Ballamy | Please dont go backwards with Jazz on the radio - this is a real loss! |
| 369 | Peter Wallace | The BBC's neglect of jazz, dance bands, and other specialist music is really disgraceful. The BBC should try to offer the widest choice of listening to allow the listening public some choice. Jazz is mainstream and popular with all age groups. I get the impression that those making decisions about radio output have quite limited musical tastes. |
| 370 | Richard Alan Melly | The Best of Jazz has been a major part of our jazz history and is vital to our musical future. It must be returned to us and handled with care. |
| 371 | Catriona Mackay | |
| 372 | Nigel Burlinson | |
| 373 | John Shenton | How dare the bbc deprive the Jazz community after years of loyal listening!!
Start using public transport instead of expensive taxi rides Now. Lets have some talent on the beeb and less freeloaders. |
| 374 | Robert McDowell | The Best of Jazz was a major influence in me developing an interest in jazz. I am now actively involved in playing and promoting live jazz through Linlithgow Jazz Club which I started ten years ago. |
| 375 | Mike Blakesley | This sort of programme will be sadly missed. |
| 376 | Michael Owers | |
| 377 | Nick Gould | Humphey is a great loss to the jazz community. lets hope the program can be brought back to life. |
| 378 | Neil Mackinnon | |
| 379 | Butch | |
| 380 | carol davies | jazz in its many forms is becoming more popular including with younger people. it is already marginalised and the BBC should really be trying to broadcast to cater for all tastes |
| 381 | Nichola Waine | Best Of jazz was the only Radio 2 programme I ever listened to. i had visions of Chris Barber taking over. |
| 382 | Anonymous | Bring it back |
| 383 | Chris Greive | Programs such as this are invaluable for showcasing the massive history of jazz & its sub-genres. It allows us to take in the extraordinary contributions of musicians from many backgrounds & cultures including those from the UK. |
| 384 | Robert R. Calder | Humphrey Lyttelton was certainly irreplaceable, but he was the first to insist on the high worth of performances possible to so many gifted and informed individuals. Anyone who took up an equivalent of THE BEST OF JAZZ would have to earn the name of a successor to Humph, who would have welcomed (without claiming much for himself) the making available of such an opportunity. He was one of a very few who exaggerated the number of mistakes he made (easy, since he made very, very few!). |
| 385 | Myles Kimberley | |
| 386 | nigel chadwick | essential to give the vibrant and creative jazz related arts performers and communities the channel for getting their music out into the wider world; as well as an essential part of keeping alive creativity and all the benefits that stem from this. |
| 387 | Anonymous | |
| 388 | Anonymous | |
| 389 | Anonymous | |
| 390 | Jude Balen | |
| 391 | Tony Bell | |
| 392 | Karen Dufour | |
| 393 | John Wright | The BBC radio stations (Radio 2 and Radio 3) have a duty to provide a broad spectrum of music, to complement the independent stations that are generally pop-based. When one considers how many jazz clubs there are in UK it's clear there is a significant fan base that deserves a weekly radio show.
The demise of Best of Jazz is just the latest in BBC's appalling cuts in their schedule/playlist/genres which have led also to the disappearance of Light Classical music programmes from both Radio 2 and Radio 3 (presented by Richard Baker and Brain Kay). |
| 394 | Ronald Ager | |
| 395 | Garry Allcock | |
| 396 | Anonymous | |
| 397 | Philip Clark | Giving Humph a posthumous award at the BBC Jazz Awards is meaningless unless his work is allowed to continue as he would have wanted. |
| 398 | Dave Jones | |
| 399 | Les Waters | There has never been enough jazz on radio or TV and yet whenever I go to clubs or concert halls they are always packed. The BBC always has air time for "classical" ,plays, poetry, books, The Archers so why is jazz always the fall guy. |
| 400 | Del Day | C'mon guys, we don't all want to listen to Russell Brand and Norah Jones all the time. Give jazz a break, PLEASE!! |