Tham khảo Duke Ellington

  1. “Biography”. DukeEllington.com (Official site). 2008. Truy cập ngày 26 tháng 1 năm 2012. 
  2. Tucker 1995, tr. 6Lỗi harv: không có mục tiêu: CITEREFTucker1995 (trợ giúp) writes "He tried to avoid the word 'jazz' preferring 'Negro' or 'American' music. He claimed there were only two types of music, 'good' and 'bad'... And he embraced a phrase coined by his colleague Billy Strayhorn – 'beyond category' – as a liberating principle."
  3. Morton, "Jelly Roll" (1938: Library of Congress Recording) The Complete Recordings By Alan Lomax.
  4. Manuel, Peter (2009: 69). Creolizing Contradance in the Caribbean. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  5. Acosta, Leonardo (2003: 5). Cubano Be Cubano Bop; One Hundred Years of Jazz in Cuba. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books.
  6. Mauleón (1999: 4)
  7. Hajdu, David (1996), Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 978-0-86547-512-0, p.170.
  8. "The 1999 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Special Awards and Citations". The Pulitzer Prizes. Truy cập ngày 3 tháng 12 năm 2013. With reprint of short biography and list of works (selected).
  9. Schuller, Gunther, The Swing Era, New York: Oxford University Press, 1989, ISBN 0-19-504312-X. p.157