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.

JAZZ CO-ORDINATION HAS CHANGED AUSTRALIAN CULTURE

by Bruce Johnson

JazzChord, Jul/Aug, 1998

When I was invited to stand as President of the Jazz Co-ordination Association of NSW in 1989, 1 thought of it as a compliment, but the acceptance of which would make little difference to anything. At that time I shared the widespread scepticism about the value to jazz of institutionalised infrastructures...

JCA NSW PRESIDENT’S REPORT 2000

by Bruce Johnson

This is the first year that the AGM has included a brief President’s Report, and that innovation in itself reflects the broad shifts which I would like to signal...

A VALEDICTORY

by Bruce Johnson

JazzChord, Dec 01/Jan 02

At the last AGM of the Jazz Co-ordination Association of NSW (held in April, 2001) I stepped down from the Presidency, as I had foreshadowed in the previous year. The main reasons for this are to do with a general sense of transition…