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 & SOCIETY: SOUND, ART, MUSIC - LIVING

by Bruce Johnson

First annual Bell Jazz Lecture delivered October 9, 1993 at Waverley Library

It's a little intimidating having to set the tone  for what promises to be a major  annual event, and because the subject is jazz,  the range  of levels which  might seem  to be available is very broad.  Jazz  itself bas been categorised as everything from high art to popular entertainment. It's a very  personal and  localised music,  but also the most influential development in twentieth century  music on an international scale...

JAZZ AND THE CULTURAL POLICY

The Committee of the Jazz Co-ordination Association of New South Wales

JazzChord, Sep/Oct, 1994

No-one in the arts in Australia can fail to be stimulated by the Federal Government’s moving the arts towards the centre of the political agenda. For jazz in particular it is a shame that our art form was scarcely mentioned in the Government’s cultural policy Creative Nation, and that the recommendations made by the National Jazz Alliance were apparently ignored…

OUR EXPERIENCE WITH SENATOR BOB McMULLAN

by Eric Myers

JazzChord, Nov/Dec, 1993

On November 18, 1993, Bruce Johnson (President of the Jazz Co-ordination Association of NSW) and I saw the Minister for the Arts Senator Bob McMullan in his office in Canberra. This meeting came about as a result of a personal invitation to Bruce, issued by Senator McMullan on October 9, 1993, following Bruce’s inaugural Bell Jazz Lecture, to meet and discuss matters relating to jazz…