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ROGER FRAMPTON: AN IMPROMPTU APPRECIATIONJazzChord, Feb/Mar, 2000

A FOOTNOTE ON MERV ACHESONJazz Magazine, Jan/Feb, 1982

SCOTT TINKLER: THE LONE TRUMPETERTake Me Higher, 2011

LIVING THE JAZZ LIFE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FORTY MUSICIANS ABOUT THEIR CAREERS IN JAZZby W Royal Stokes, Book review, JazzChord Oct/Nov, 2001

THE PHONEY DUKE

DR JAZZ: THE LAST DAYS OF THE STRAWBERRY HILL, Film review, JazzChord, May/Jun, 1998

KEITH HOUNSLOW: MY JAZZ LIFE, JazzChord, Jun/Jul, 1999

UNCHAINED MELODY, April, 2017

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN... MR BERNIE McGANN, Bruce Hart's photographic exhibition, JazzChord, Jun/Jul, 2000

MEETING MILES, Excerpt from the book Take Me Higher, 2001

BODGIE DADA & THE CULT OF COOL, by John Clare, Book review by Eric Myers, JazzChord, Oct/Nov, 1995

BODGIE DADA & THE CULT OF COOL, John Clare interviewed by Eric Myers, JazzChord, Aug/Sep, 1995

RONNIE'S PLACE, April, 2017

JAZZ MASTERPIECE, Review of Ten Part Invention album Unidentified Spaces, The Monthly, October 2011

JAZZ POSSIBILITIES REALISED & DENIED, Second Annual Bell Jazz Lecture, October 8, 1994

JAZZ AND MULTICULTURAL MUSIC, JazzChord, Apr/May 2000

DOIN’ THE SATCHMO SPLITJazzChord, Summer, 1998/99

JOHN POCHÉE: NOT THE BITTER END, Jazz Magazine Summer/Autumn 1986

KINGS CROSS REVISITED: THE OTHER SIDE, May, 2017

WHY WANGARATTA? THE PHENOMENON OF THE WANGARATTA FESTIVAL OF JAZZ, by John Clare. Book review by Eric Myers, JazzChord, Summer 1999/2000

MIKE NOCK CONFOUNDS OZ JAZZ’S KNOCKERS, Nation Review, April 20-26, 1978

BILL FRISELL: A PORTRAIT, comments on Emma Franz's film

IN HONOUR OF MIKE NOCK, June, 2017

EL ROCCO: BEYOND THE MAINSTREAM, from Bodgie Dada & The Cult of Cool, 1995

OBITUARY: KEITH STIRLING 1938-2003, Sydney Morning Herald, August 15, 2003

DAVID ADES: A LIFE IN A DAY, CD Review, Music Trust of Australia, February 1, 2016

INSIDE THE MUSICIAN: JOHN CLARE AT 75, Music Trust of Australia, June 5, 2016

JAZZ CENTRE 44: SOUNDING MANY CHORDS, from Bodgie Dada and the Cult of Cool, 1995

SIMA: A MAJOR CATALYST, from Bodgie Dada and the Cult of Cool, 1995

THELONIOUS MONK: MONASTIC MAD MAGICAL, Sydney Morning Herald, September 15, 1990

GRAEME BELL AUSTRALIAN JAZZMAN: HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Graeme BellBook review, Sydney Morning Herald, July 9, 1988

JACKSON POLLOCK, MARC HANNAFORD AND OTHER WHIRLING MATTER, australianjazz.net, June 19, 2012

THE ENGINE ROOM BACK FROM THE SOVIET UNION, Sydney Morning Herald, December 16, 1989

CELLAR DWELLERS FACE BRIGHT LIGHTS, on the film Beyond El Rocco, Sydney Morning Herald, December 30, 1987

SANDY EVANS & JUDY BAILEY: WOMEN OUTLAST THE LEGEND, Sydney Morning Herald, July 10, 1993

DON BURROWS & TEN PART INVENTIONSydney Morning Herald, March, 1991

BURROWS AND MORRISON: A RETROSPECTIVE ON A GREAT JAZZ PARTNERSHIP, CDs review, Music Trust of Australia, June 2, 2017

LOST IN THE STARS: INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ZODIAC SUITES OF MARY LOU WILLIAMS AND KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN, review of an Allan Browne Trio album, Australianjazz.net, November 28, 2013

BEYOND THE BASEMENT: A GUIDE TO SYDNEY’S JAZZ, Sydney Morning Herald, May 14, 1993

THIS NARROW ISTHMUS, review of a CD from the Julien Wilson Quartet, Music Trust of Australia, December 1, 2015

THE ENGINE ROOM: ALL WORKING PARTS IN GOOD ORDER, Sydney Morning Herald, September 22, 1990

GREGG ARTHUR: CERTAINLY A JAZZ SINGER, Foundry 616, 21 October, 2016

DICK HUGHES’ PORT JACKSON FIVE, Sydney Morning Herald, July 16, 1992

HAMMERHEAD’S MOZAIC, Album review, australianjazz.net, August 12, 2014

THE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ BOOM, Sydney Morning Herald, September 1, 1990

MARK SIMMONDS, BOBBY GEBERT, SWEET ATMOSPHERE: FREEBOPPERS GET IN FLEA'S EAR

KEITH HOUNSLOW: A NEW CAREER PHASE, Jazz Magazine, Winter, 1986

THE MASTER: HAPPY BIRTHDAY BERNIE McGANN, The Monthly, October, 2012

ON CHET BAKER, Jazz Magazine, August 1982

ON DON BURROWS, Sydney Morning Herald July 23, 1984 & January 8, 1991

ROGER FRAMPTON AND THE RESURGENCE OF CREATIVE MUSIC, Jazz Magazine, Winter/Spring, 1984

ROGER FRAMPTON, PAUL GRABOWSKY AND DON PULLEN, Sydney Morning Herald, March 3, 1992

A GIRLIE’S GLISSANDO: WENDY SADDINGTON AND BERNIE McGANN, Nation Review, 3-9 March, 1977

THE REAL PHIL TRELOAR SITS DOWN, Nation Review, 7-13 April, 1977

MILES AHEAD, June, 2018

CHARLIE PARKER THE ARTIST, Jazz Magazine, September/October, 1982

ON CLIFFORD BROWN & MAX ROACH, Jazz Magazine, September/October, 1982

JAZZ IN ITS PLACE: VENUE 505, Music Trust’s Loudmouth, December 6, 2017

THE MUSIC OF THINGS, Music Trust’s Loudmouth, September 3, 2017

IRON IN THE BLOOD: A MUSICAL ADAPTATION OF ROBERT HUGHES’ THE FATAL SHORE, Album review, Music Trust’s Loudmouth October 4, 2016

ALISTER SPENCE TRIO LIVE, Album review, Music Trust’s Loudmouth, February 1, 2016

LLOYD SWANTON’S AMBON, Music Trust’s Loudmouth, December 1, 2015

WITNESSES OF THE THIRD COMING: THE ROCK AND ROLL DIARY OF A JAZZ FAN, Extempore, November, 2008

THE MIKE NOCK QUARTET AT FOUNDRY 616, May 25, 2018

ASK ME NOW: CONVERSATIONS ON JAZZ & LITERATURE Ed by Sascha Feinstein, book review, Extempore I,  2008

JOHN SANGSTER AND MARTY MOONEY IN THE SOUP, Sydney Morning Herald, March 24, 1990

OUT FOR THE COUNT, Sydney Morning Herald, April 23, 1992

JUDY BAILEY’S NEW ALBUM, Jazz Down Under, November, 1974

CHARLIE MUNRO, Jazz Down Under, January/February, 1977

THE CHARLIE MUNRO QUARTET: EASTERN HORIZONS, Jazz Down Under, January/February 1977

PAUL McNAMARA, Jazz Down Under, January, 1976

BRIAN BROWN COMES TO SYDNEY, Jazz Down Under, November 1974

FOCUS ON NOLAN/BUDDLE SYNDICATE, Jazz Down Under, May/June, 1975

BRIAN BROWN AND JAZZ CO-OP IN CONCERT AND IN CAMERA, Jazz Down Under, January, 1975

MUSIC IS AN OPEN SKY: A REVIEW, Jazz Down Under, July/August, 1975

BODGIE DADA AND THE CULT OF COOL by John Clare/Gail Brennan, Book review by Norm Dixon, Green Left Weekly, February 28, 1996

FOCUS ON THE LAST STRAW, Jazz Down Under, September/October, 1975

THE LAST STRAW: IT'S NAMED ONLY PARTLY IN JEST, Jazz Australia, 1978

A JAZZ ODYSSEY: MY LIFE IN JAZZ by Oscar Peterson, book review, Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2003

HOWIE SMITH, Jazz Down Under, May/Jun, 1976

THE NEW DON BURROWS QUINTET, Jazz Down Under, July/August, 1976

THAT OLD NEW THING, JazzChord, Apr/May 2001 and Jun/Jul 2001 editions

MUSIC IS AN OPEN SKY, Jazz Down Under, July/August, 1977

PETER BOOTHMAN, Jazz Down Under, May/June, 1976

THE RETURN OF THE REDMAN, Australian Jazz & Blues, Volume 1, No 5, 1994

ALBUM REVIEW: McJAD GOES ORGANIC, Sydney Morning Herald, September 18-19, 2004

THE RHYTHM SECTION THAT PLAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER, Encore Magazine, June, 1979

PHILIP MORRIS SAXES FIVE, Encore Magazine, June, 1979

CHARLIE MUNRO: SURVIVAL WITH SPIRIT, Encore Magazine, July, 1979

RECORD REVIEWS: JAMES MORRISON, KATE CEBERANO, VINCE JONES, MAX ROACH, Sydney Morning Herald, October 9, 1990

JUDY BAILEY, Encore Magazine, May, 1979

JON ROSE: MUSIC THROUGH THE TIME BARRIER, Encore Magazine, September, 1979

AVANT-GARDE TO NEW ACCESSIBILITY: SOME MOVEMENTS IN SYDNEY EXPERIMENTAL JAZZ, Official program, Sydney International Jazz Festival, March 1992

THE VAMPIRES AT SIMA, www.australianjazz.net, September 16, 2014

JAZZGROOVE SUMMER FIESTA, www.australianjazz.net, February 1, 2015

DAVE JACKSON QUARTET: COSMONTOLOGY LIVE, www.australianjazz.net, July 21, 2014

JAZZGROOVE MOTHERSHIP ORCHESTRA WITH SCOTT TINKLER, www.australianjazz.net, September 9, 2014

WANGARATTA’S 25TH FESTIVAL, www.australianjazz.net, November 6, 2014

REVIEWS OF CLARION FRACTURE ZONE, Sydney Morning Herald, 1988-1990

A JAZZ ODYSSEY: MY LIFE IN JAZZ by Oscar Peterson, Book Review, Sydney Morning Herald, August 30, 2003

THE WANGARATTA JAZZ FESTIVAL 1990, Sydney Morning Herald, October/November, 1990

JOHN CLARE ON DAVE LEVY 1991-1999, Sydney Morning Herald, On The Street, Rhythms

TWO REMARKABLE NEW JAZZ VENUES, Encore magazine, May, 1979

THE LA FOUR IN SYDNEY, Jazz Down Under, March, 1975

DICK HUGHES: A MILDLY INSULTING SKETCH, Music Maker, March 30, 1972

ALLAN BROWNE, Extempore, June 17, 2015

GAIL BRENNAN QUERIES BRUCE JOHNSON by Gail Brennan [aka John Clare], JazzChord, Jul/Aug, 1993

A DEFENCE OF THE AVANT-GARDE by Gail Brennan [aka John Clare}, JazzChord, Jul/Aug, 1994

A RESPONSE TO BRUCE JOHNSON by Gail Brennan [aka John Clare], JazzChord, Summer 1994/95

THE MUSIC OF STAN KENTON AND ITS DIVERSE SOURCES, JazzChord, Oct/Nov, 2001 & Feb/Mar, 2002

A REVIEW OF THE ABC-TV SERIES ‘THE PULSE’, JazzChord, Jun/Jul, 2001

12TH TAC WANGARATTA FESTIVAL OF JAZZ 2001, JazzChord, Dec 01/Jan 02

OBITUARY: KEN JAMES 1944-2012, by John Clare, Peter Rechniewski, Sandy Evans, Cheryl Kelly, John Pochée, Sydney Improvised Music Association (SIMA) website, 2012

AUSTRALIAN JAZZ IS ALIVE AND WELL AND BRINGING IN THE CROWDS, National Times, February 23-28, 1976

DALE BARLOW: RETURN OF THE NATIVE, Sydney Morning Herald, November 29, 1990

ROBIN EUBANKS ALEX DEUTSCH DALE BARLOW JAN GARBAREK, Sydney Morning Herald, January 7, 1992

EDDIE HENDERSON & DALE BARLOW, Sydney Morning Herald, February 6, 1993

OLIVIA CHINDAMO’S KEEP AN EYE ON SPRING, Loudmouth, April 2, 2017

MUTATIONS DOWN UNDER, Coda Magazine, January, 2000

BIRTH OF A NEW ALL-AUSTRALIAN JAZZ RECORD LABEL, Australian Disc & Tape Review, December, 1975

AUNTIE LEADS DISC RENAISSANCE, Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday, July 14, 1990

JAZZ ROCK DEVELOPMENT, Music Maker, March, 1971

KEITH BARR, Music Maker, May 1971

SERGE ERMOLL, Jazz Down Under, September, 1975

1995: A YEAR OF VINDICATION & SADNESS, JazzChord, Summer 1995/96

THE RETURN OF BOB BERTLES, Jazz Down Under, September/October, 1976

FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE JAZZ GIANTS, Music Maker, November, 1971

NAT BARTSCH TRIO, australianjazz.net, May 3, 2013