Resources

1. The Joy Of Ella Fitzgerald's Accessible Elegance
2. How Mary Lou Williams Shaped The Sound Of The Big-Band Era
3. Duke Ellington Biography
4. What Is Swing?
5. Fletcher Henderson: 'Architect of Swing'

References

Burnim, Mellonee V. and Portia K. Maultsby. 2015. African American Music: An Introduction. 2nd ed. New York: Taylor & Francis.

Schiff, David. 2012. The Ellington Century. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.

Shapiro, Nat and Nat Hentoff, eds. 1955. Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz as Told by the Men Who Made It. New York: Dover Publications.

Stowe, David W. 1994. Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Walser, Robert, ed. 1999. Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History. New York: Oxford University Press.