Sometimes you need to stand with your nose to the window and have a good look at jazz. And I've done that on many occasions.

1964 saw the recording of his last working band for a period of over 20 years- Proof Positive. Despite his small level of success Johnson acknowledged that racism and other prejudices kept a black jazz musician such as himself from securing the amount and quality of work he was qualified to perform. S.

J. He was sometimes credited as Jay Jay Johnson.