So far as I know, this is the only regular complete review of jazz releases now published, and to cut it Out would be, at the very least, to render a great inconvenience to us jazz-lovers.

I would be prepared to wager that none of these critics of jazz possesses a single disc of it, and their ignorance on the subject makes their view fail to convince.

Jazz may tend to be crude musically (what folk music does not?), but no more sincere form of art exists.

London, N.io. IAN LESLIE.

Letters demanding retention of "Jazz" have also been received from Mr. Stanley Mellor, Inveraray, Mr. J. L. Caine, London, S.E.18, Mr. J. W. Cooper, Newmarket, J. W. N. Wallasey, A. B. L., Worcester, Mr. Philip Turner, Bradfield College. Several of these and others, in passing, ask for continuance of Reader's Choice."

(To avoid misunderstanding and save further correspondence, the editorial view, rightly or wrongly, is that this paper should be, within war limitations, a survey of all gramophone music, not merely any one or two sections of it.—ED.)