BRUCE JOHNSON

This folder is dedicated to the writings of Professor A J B (Bruce) Johnson, perhaps best-known as the author of the Oxford Companion to Australian jazz (1987). A prolific writer on Australian jazz, his articles on this website already appear in many folders, and in the fulness of time they will hopefully be uploaded to this folder. Click on the INDEX button for a list of articles in this folder.

OBITUARY: HARRY STEIN 1919-1994

by Bruce Johnson

JazzChord, May/Jun, 1994

The funeral and wake - a roistering affair - following the death of Harry Stein in May, 1994, brought together under one roof representatives of many of those disparate invisible cultures that underpin local traditions and fortify them against exploitative centralist engineering...

OBITUARY: CHARLIE MUNRO 1917-1985

by Bruce Johnson

JazzChord, Summer/Autumn, 1986

Charles Robert Munro was born on May 22, 1917 in New Zealand. He died suddenly from a cerebral haemorrhage in Sydney on December 9, 1985 at the age of 68. He was the child of musicians who ran a family dance band with whom he was playing before his teens…

OBITUARY: JOHN ‘OCKER’ BAMFORD 1930-1985

by Bruce Johnson

Jazz Magazine, Summer/Autumn, 1986

John Bamford was born in Adelaide on July 10, 1930, into a musical family, under whose influence he began playing piano at the age of four. Subsequently he became interested in jazz through the recordings of Pete Johnson and Albert Ammons...