Who's best? Who's best?

[A Lark Ascending]

As ever, the most vital question facing civilisation.

The BBC have bombarded us Brits for the last few weeks with the exciting news of a temporary online Jazz station during the London Jazz Festival.

And they came up with a really innovative idea for the site - asking people who their favourite jazz performer was. So we've all been sat on the edge of our seats for weeks and, at last, the results are in:

1.  Miles Davis
2. Louis Armstrong
3. Duke Ellington
4. John Coltrane
5. Ella Fitzgerald
6. Charlie Parker
7. Billie Holiday
8. Thelonious Monk (8=)
9. Bill Evans (8=)
10. Oscar Peterson

Good Lord! What surprising results. It's great to see the BBC out there on the edge with its ideas for jazz programming.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34827355

[This post was written with generous aid from the British Society for the Promotion of Sarcasm] 

Edited November 15, 2015 by A Lark Ascending

[danasgoodstuff]

...and the College of Received Opinion!

[A Lark Ascending]

I love the Beeb. They do so much right and the whole of British broadcasting would deteriorate without them.

But given that they devote so little time to jazz and that they are currently under existential attack and need to demonstrate their worth loudly I'd have hoped for something more original than another 'Who is the Greatest?'

The BBC still seem under the illusion that what the public want is interactivity. What I suspect most of us want is good programmes that surprise us. They frequently do that...this just seems such a poor idea. 

[BillF]

Thought you were joking again, Bev, but here it is!

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/16/miles-davis-voted-greatest-jazz-artist-of-all-time

Of course, it's rubbish. Everyone knows that ALAN BARNES is the world's greatest jazz musician!