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Do you really, Mr. ABC Jazz?

I've been complaining about that problem in the right channel of your MP3 feed for NEARLY 2 YEARS now and YOU haven't even consulted the problem.

In fact, YOU haven't even acknowledged that 'a' problem exists.

Now, please do tell me how treating your listeners like mushrooms equates to "appreciating" their opinions. I would be fascinated to hear it.

How much evidence do you want that this guy CAN'T SING for nuts. Listen to "Autumn Serenade". It is literally a CAVALCADE of MISSED notes.

How did ANYBODY get it into their heads that this guy was a great singer worthy of ENDLESS repetition on Dig Jazz?

PLEASE, PLEASE STOP IT!

IF I HEAR ONE SOUR NOTE EMINATE OUT OF THE THROAT OF KURT BLOODY ELLING I'M GOING TO NECK MYSELF!!!

Tuesday 1:47 am. The bandwidth has just kicked down (during the playing of this track).

The reduction on sound quality is MASSIVE. ("Slight"...did you say "Slight"???)

I estimate we are down to 28k, from and estimated 96k. ABC jazz now sounds like it's being piped down 3 foot of garden hose. I guess this change is permanent.

I am extremely disappointed. Like most of the rest of Australia, we have no Digital Radio signal as yet and it may be many years.

What I don't understand is that there is in fact no shortage of bandwidth available on the Terrestrial Digital TV network. So why can't the someone allocate more of the unused bandwidth to the ABC for the purposes of carrying the Digital Radio signals at least until the Digital Radio rollout is near completed?

Nah, it just makes to much sense I guess. It wouldn't cost anything and nobody would make any money out of it. The only people to benefit would be the public and you can't give them anything for want of having to take it back.

The Guitar sound and sparse arrangement remind me very much of Bill Frissell's style of composition (whom I like very much). I wonder if they attribute his west coast style to their own style of jazz?

The Album cover on this page (and also on the Just Played list) appears to be wrong. It appears to be "Wishing Well" by Karen Lynne, which I believe is a country album.

I believe the album cover appearing on the "What's on" page is the correct one.

Congratulations and welcome to ABC Jazz.

Perhaps yourself and others should consider becoming the founding members of the "Inner Society for Safe Choices @ ABC Jazz" and help them build a little shrine to Kurt Elling.

Then, you could have hourly hymns sung out by Kurt Elling in a never-ending orgy dedicated to the mediocre of jazz artists. Kurt's next album entitled " The complete recorded works of Frank Sinatra, revisited ..again!" is sure to set your toes-a-tingling with anticipation.

I can hardly wait for that one.

If you are really interested in knowing what I am actually listening to (which I doubt) then view my recommendations and if you're really interested in knowing what sort of performances I attend, then view my downloads.

I rallied against the former ABC Jazz policy of 'Album of the Week' being on HOURLY rotation and they CHANGED IT.

I rallied against the damage being done to Jacam Manricks' career by the malfunctioning 'Album of the Week' playout system and THEY FIXED IT. Sadly not before probable damage was done to his placing at this years Wangaratta Jazz Festival. Many more people might have attended his performance if they were not already in possession of the preconceptions given to them by ABC Jazz about his music.

Sadly, both of these incidents have gotten tangled up with the Kurt Elling "Fan Club". It doesn't have much to do with him at all. I would have made the same protests irrespective of which artist was being FLOGGED TO DEATH by the ABC.

And now we have the coming reduction in Bandwidth to ABC Jazz to rally against. Not much hope on that one I am afraid.

Write to me again when you've been around for a bit longer and have worked out how this place works.

P.S. Who is Michael Bublé? I much prefer spinning my complete (all vinyl) recorded works of the Laughing Clowns. Been an LC fan for 30 years and I even brought along a member of 'The Go-Betweens' to their recent "Live at the Basement" sessions.

Very Swedish indeed. Lazy Jazz. They play it like they don't want to try too hard, but it is an enormously accomplished sound.

The track "Waltz For Lenny" is very fuzzy and distorted. It sounds rather like a digitized track lifted from badly worn vinyl, which can't be right based on the recording date.

So either there has been a problem with the encoding of this track, or the wrong track is being played (I can't tell because I'm not familiar with this artist).

Either way, something is wrong.

Thanks for that.

It appears that Jacam is finally getting fair treatment from ABC Jazz. For at least 3 days they introduced his album (as 'Album of the week') and then they played a Kurt Elling track.

It's quite obvious that nobody at the ABC monitors the broadcast. When the system goes wrong, anybody trying to get the problem fixed is likely to get a sore head (bashing it against a brick wall).

Plea's to fix the problem's are ignored (because no one reads the plea's).

It's the very definition of irresponsible broadcasting. Whatever goes to air, goes to air and they neither monitor nor respond to complaints. Well done the ABC.

Possibly. He comes from a long line of Jazz musicians. Allaboutjazz.com claims "His grandfather and father were musicians and into jazz" but I couldn't Google his father's name.

Was Mario an Australian? Was Mario's father a jazz musician?

If so, it seems likely that you are on the right track.

ABC Jazz on the other hand, often mistakes Jacam for Kurt 'bloody' Elling.

Tuesday, 6 October, 8:43pm.

Album of the week announcement - 'Labyrinth' by Jacam Manricks.

You played "They Say It's Wonderful" by Kurt Elling.

Obviously nobody listens to ABC Jazz anymore.

Tuesday, 6 October, about 2:35 pm.

It's still going on. Another announcement that your album of the week is 'Labyrinth' by Jacam Manricks.

You played "Dedicated To You" by Kurt Elling.

Poor, poor Mr Manricks.

That this situation can continue so long only demonstrates to me that ABC Jazz has no reach in the industry. Nobody is paying any attention to it. Not the staff, not the listeners. Nobody!

Further to my previous complaint.

I just noticed that the voiceover announced that your new 'Album of the Week' is 'Labyrinth' (Jacam Manricks). However what did you play? (11.35PM, Monday October 5)

You guessed it. "Nancy with the Laughing Face" by Kurt Elling!!! Am I destined to listen to Kurt Elling EVERY HOUR for the rest of my life?

Is there no end to the incompetence being demonstrated by the ABC Jazz team? If not for my sake, please think of the harm you are now doing to Jacam Manrick's career.

The announcement is so emphatic that the next track is by the artist "Jacam Manricks". Now everybody thinks he is a singer (who sounds suspiciously like Kurt bloody Elling) and sings stuff like "Nancy with the Laughing Face".

...OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY!

I would like to protest STRONGLY against the apparent new policy of ABC Jazz to put 'Albums of the Week' on High rotation.

Hell, I've heard tracks from this album HOURLY for the past week and I am SICK OF HEARING ABOUT IT.

How dare you abuse ABC's position as a public broadcaster by doing this sort of promotion?

Someone at the ABC is doing a very good job of DESTROYING the fine reputation and listener goodwill built up by Dig Jazz. This sort of promotional programing has NO PLACE at the ABC and if it continues ABC Jazz will very soon loose my patronage as well as the patronage of many others.

PS. Kurt Elling absolutely STINKS as a vocalist and the backing arrangements are MEDIOCRE at best. His record company employ's some fine musicians to play an 'easy-listening' style of Jazz so that you are forced to listen to the vocal style which is a cheap imitation of Sinatra's style, timber and key.

He might appeal to the 'Blue Rinse Set' still morning Frank's passing but has few redeeming features beyond those memories.