The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz

The Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz (ISBN 0195547918) is a book in the series of Oxford Companions published by Oxford University Press. It was written and edited by Bruce Johnson, an academic, prolific author and jazz trumpeter from New South Wales, with some specialist articles by guest contributors.

The book was released in November 1987, and was considered as being indispensable for serious followers of jazz. Opening with an essay history of jazz in Australia, the book also contains over 220 pages of biographies or articles on bands, alphabetically arranged.

Johnson spent five years researching and writing the book, and it led to his next project where he would research "jazz, radical politics, and art." In 1989, Johnson presented a series of radio programs on the history of Australian jazz that grew from his work on the Oxford Companion to Australian Jazz and his archives collected during the research process. The radio program received the Public Broadcasters Association of Australia Music Award for excellence, and a Certificate of Merit at the Australian Hi-Fi FM Awards.