john buchanan

This folder is dedicated to the activities of the entrepreneur and broadcaster John Buchanan, perhaps best-known as the presenter of the programme Swing Sessions on 2MBS-FM Fine Music at 12 noon every Monday.

JOHN BUCHANAN’S SWING SESSIONS PROGRAMME ON FINE MUSIC 2MBS-FM

In his programme “Swing Sessions“, broadcast on Mondays at 12 noon, John Buchanan brings you bands of the 1930’s swing era and the dance bands of the 1920’s taken from radio broadcasts, transcriptions and recording sessions.

December 11, 2023, 12 noon

OBITUARY: TOM BAKER 1952-2001

by Bruce Johnson

JazzChord, Dec 01/Jan 02

Tom (John Thomas) Baker was born in Oakdale, California, on September 14, 1952, just over 100 miles from San Francisco. He died in Holland, on October 23, 2001, aged 49. Tom Baker began piano lessons at the age of six, with the parental expectation that he would one day become a concert pianist. His interests, however, lay more with contemporary pop, but it was a concert by a US Marines band in San Francisco that turned his attention to brass instruments…

OBITUARY: ERIC CHILD 1910-1995

by Clement Semmler

JazzChord Jun/Jul, 1995

On a Pacific cruise some years ago I heard to my delight in an evening cabaret show a brilliant clarinetist, Carl Barriteau... He had settled in Sydney some years back and played mainly on cruise ships. Back in Sydney I immediately rang Eric Child with my “discovery”. I should have known better...