R3 hates jazz and is trying to kill off jazz on the radio

[Serial_Apologist]

recorded a question for R Wright about Jazz Programmes ... on Feedback this Friday if selected

all power to your recording calum da jazbo.

let's hope at this very moment, roger is putting his tape of you in the radio, ready for this lunctime's broadcast and (miraculously) the other roger has changed his mind.

I didn't know there were two. Are two Rogers in the bush worse than one in hand? Not that I'd know!

[handsomefortune]

yes, the prospect of an excess of rogers is quite duanting, it's r4 'feedback''s roger bolthead discussing roger wrong's kerazy new ideas to attract more pre schoolers to r3.

[Serial_Apologist]

it's r4 'feedback''s roger bolthead discussing roger wrong's kerazy new ideas to attract more pre schoolers to r3.

[handsomefortune]

i've got my favourite toddler outfit on, complete with padded straightjacket, tutu & tiara, and a sack of salt - in preparation for being talked down to. if you listen, i suggest you do the same serial apologist, otherwise the big roger's will annoy you, really intensely.

[french frank]

I've added my two penn'orth to Wright's blog. I'm sorry if that's the kiss of death to the jazz cause but I believe passionately in a pluralist Radio 3.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

wot no jazz! well stuff Feedback and R4

thought Squealer was under some pressure there, he used the word "perspective" like a big stick

well Jazzboes we are deserted and not cared about so what's new?

[Pilchardman]

What a disappointment! Mention was made of Saturday afternoon, but then it wasn't put to Roger Wright, and no listeners' views were aired. Boo!

I was extremely unimpressed in any case with Wright's attitude.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wright just selected 1 Breakfast from 1991 for comparison with 1 recent edition. Boy, he must be a busy man - obviously no time to make proper comparisons was effectively admitted. Then he cited one professional trumpet player talking about Flor Peeters out of all the incoming trivia as representative of phone-in input. Unchallenged, naturally...

[Pilchardman]

I've posted a comment on the blog http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radio3/20...shtml#comments

I await moderation.

[charles t]

I, too contributed my two farthings worth.

Tried to put a positive spin on the topic...

[offstage: The drastic time difference (Pacific Daylight Time) helps to mitigate pain. Unlike that famous utterance by that tenor playing (ArKAnSas) Prez:

'I feel your pain!']

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

CONGRATS and many thanks for trying Calum, but Roger Wright sounded the usual defensive BBC prat/pillock when challenged. "New people don't complain etc...I have a far bigger postbag than you"

The BBC now is now ALL about numbers and "reach" (that reflect back on the fat controller's self image/salary) and if that means R3 is to be the new wash whiter Classic FM and a dumb race to the bottom... so be it. He's GOT his pension.

R3's upcoming sponsorship of the London Jazz Fest is equally cynical - coroporate profile over content and the "jazz box" is ticked for another year. Job done.

Off to listen to my Elmo Hope box set. (Hell, they NEVER play him!)

BN.

[Pilchardman]

Still no reply to my email.

Incidentally, my Jazzwise came this morning, and there's a brief letter on the topic. I'm surprised JW hasn't made more of the issue, really.

[old khayyam]

The only jazz i hear on R3 these days is on a Sunday afternoon, is of the exceptionally old-fashioned variety, and is another excuse to get an American presenter on air. I say "excuse", but it's no excuse at all unless you are promoting jazz as a uniquely American genre.

[Old Grumpy]

The only jazz i hear on R3 these days is on a Sunday afternoon, is of the exceptionally old-fashioned variety, and is another excuse to get an American presenter on air. I say "excuse", but it's no excuse at all unless you are promoting jazz as a uniquely American genre.

What would that be then - I hear no jazz on a Sunday afternoon. Do you mean JRR? There's quite a lot of "old-fashioned" stuff I agree, but more modern material (I use the word advisedly!) is also aired. The presenter may be American, but does, I believe live in the UK.

[Pilchardman]

Surely OK means Saturday?