We have been attending your Annual Jazz Party At Sea since you started in 2000.  We always used to love the jazz and big band cruises aboard the S/S Norway and felt very sad when NCL and then Cunard stopped staging them.  You stepped in just at the right minute!!  Norwegian Cruise Line makes us feel right at home, just like the old days.  The jazz is as good as ever except that a few of our old favourites have passed away but we love the new young blood like Benny Green and Russell Malone.  We are especially excited to be coming this year to hear "Ragtime" Reginald Robinson who has been hailed as the Scott Joplin of our time.  Chancery, please keep doing what you are doing and just a thought, when are you holding your Big Band cruise?  Kind regards, L & M Stocker, Aberdeen

Our first Annual Jazz Party At Sea was in 2005 when we sailed with you up to Alaska, which was somewhere we had always wanted to go.  It was absolutely brilliant, breath taking scenery with breath taking jazz.  We also did the Rocky Mountain Tour which was magnificent.  So last year when you sailed from New Orleans we couldn't wait to sign up.  We absolutely fell in love with the home town of jazz and spent our first 3 nights "doing the town".  You had organised that so well.  The 6th Annual Jazz Party At Sea was just wonderful and celebrating Bud Shank, Jimmy Heath and Joe Segal's 80th birthdays was the best party ever.  How are you going to follow that?  Of course we will find out as we are already signed up for this year.  Thank you Chancery. G & J Hart, London

I have cruised with you many times and apart from my usual gripe about the "Single Person Supplement" the cruise lines impose, I have never been disappointed.  I have to admit I am now spoiled by sailing with the Regent company, luxurious to say the least but you know me and where there is jazz on the seas, that's where I will be.  Since cruising with you, I have had the opportunity to meet and chat with so many of my favourite jazz musicians, and what nice people they are too.  My photo albums are bursting at the seams and I keep up regular correspondance with some American "friends" who I meet on the ships every year.  Thank you for looking after us single people so well.  I never thought I would have so much fun with like minded, jazz loving people in my life.  I look forward to seeing you in Miami in November. I L Davies, Kent