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.

GRAEME BELL AT SEVENTY

by Bruce Johnson

Jazz Magazine, Winter/Spring, 1984

On the occasion of Graeme Emerson Bell’s 70th birthday, it is appropriate to remind ourselves of his great contribution to jazz. The list of his achievements is formidable: national and international tours, recordings, concerts, significant residencies, television series, radio broadcasts, a study tour of the US, and awards like the Queen’s Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977 and the MBE in 1978...

LEADER OF THE BAND

by Graeme Bell

Fourteenth Annual Bell Jazz Lecture delivered September 16, 2006 at Waverley Library

A bandleader can be loved, hated or anything in between. But the greatest reward he can possibly hope for is respect. A diplomatic and democratic approach will, in most cases, earn this respect, and he can then, in such an environment, set about creating the sort of music he is after.

OBITUARY: GRAEME BELL 1914-2012

by Bill Haesler OAM

Jazz In Australia Website, 2012

Pianist/bandleader/composer/artist Graeme [Gay] Emerson Bell AO, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, on 7 September 1914, and died in Sydney NSW on 13 June 2012. Graeme studied classical piano as a child and was introduced to jazz by his younger brother Roger. They formed a dance band in 1935, played for local dances and functions until jazz took precedence and, in 1941, with like-minded friends, formed Graeme Bell’s Jazz Gang…