Duke Ellington—The Blanton-Webster Band (3-CD set),
RCA/Bluebird Records 5659-2-RB, 1940-42.
Count Basie—The Complete Decca Recordings (3-CD set),
Decca/GRP Records GRD-3-611, 1937-39.
Charlie Christian (with Benny Goodman)—The Genius of the Electric Guitar
(4-CD set), Legacy Recordings 65564, 1939-41.
Ella Fitzgerald—Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song (3-CD set),
Verve Records 314 517 898-2, 1939-41.
Billie Holdiay—Billie Holiday-Lester Young: A Musical Romance,
Legacy 86635, 1937-58.
Music is My Mistress, by Duke Ellington
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1976).
Good Morning Blues, by Albert Murray and Count Basie
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1989).
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday, by Robert O’Meally
(New York: Da Capo Press, 2000).
The Swing Era, by Gunther Schuller
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
Going to Chicago, George King and Associates, 2000.
www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0041
Strange Fruit, Joel Katz, 2003.
www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/film.html
Chicago: Destination for the Great Migration
www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/afam011.html
Drop Me Off in Harlem
www.artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns, Kansas City
www.pbs.org/jazz/places/places_kansas_city.htm
Jazz Profiles from NPR—Duke Ellington: The Bandleader, part 1
www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/ellington_d1.html
Jazz Profiles from NPR—Ella Fitzgerald
www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/fitzgerald_e.html
Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio: “The Duke and the Count”
www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/jazzcast/program.asp?programNumber=116
Jazz for Young People Online: Big Band Express
www.jalc.org/jazzED/j4yp_curr/modules/BigBandExpress/module.html
