"I Wanted To Be a Jazz Musician"
John Sharpe launched his new book "I Wanted To Be a Jazz Musician" at the National Film and Sound Archives several weeks ago. It is available from him at a modest price.
Bruce Johnson has been in town
Bruce Johnson has been in town for a few weeks doing the research for another book. He is the current recipient of an NFSA Fellowship. For those of you who are not familiar with Bruce, he is a well known Sydney musician and Scholar who wrote the Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz among other things. Bruce also assisted in setting up the Jazz Archive.