Vote for Greatest Jazz Artist of All Time with the BBC

A collection of 50 jazz musicians have been compiled by the BBC and JazzFM, with help for the music community, and voting is now open to select the Greatest Jazz Artist of All Time.

Voting opened on October 6th and will remain open until Thursday 22nd October. There is wide mix of artists included in the shortlist from the US, UK and Europe and both post-humous and living nominations.

The UK jazz scene is represented by Bobby Wellins, Jamie Cullum, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler (an honorary Brit if ever there was one) , Loose Tubes and Norma Winstone.

Vote online by visiting the BBC Music website.

BBC Music Consultation

The BBC is inviting listeners to send in their views about their music radio provision until October 29th.

Participants will be able to share their views on the main radio stations that broadcast music (Radio1, Radio 2, Radio 3, 1 Xtra, 6 Music and Asian Network, identifying things which they like and dislike about the service and giving suggestions for ways to improve.

Their remit is to collect views from people of all social, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and the consultation is a chance for the jazz community to have a voice and be part of the future programming of jazz on the BBC.

To be involved in the consultation, you can visit the BBC Music Consultation form on the website and there is also an option to download the forms and email them (address listed in above link.)