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Excerpts borrowed from:

Berendt, Joachim E..  English translation by H. and B. Bredigkeit with Dan Morgenstern and Tim Nevill.  The Jazz Book:  From Ragtime to Fusion and Beyond.  Sixth edition.  New York:  Lawrence Hill Books, 1992. (See adapted style timeline)

Watson, Derek, compiler.  The Wordsworth Dictionary of Musical Quotations.  Chatham, Great Britain:  Wordsworth Reference, 1994. (Henry Pleasants and Louis Armstrong Quotes)

Yorke-Slader, Neil.  Elementary Jazz Hints.  Hamilton, Ontario:  O.M.E.A. Overture, 1990. (See sections on conducting and repertoire)

General concepts borrowed from:

Dankworth, Avril.  Jazz:  An Introduction to its Musical Basis.  Toronto:  Oxford University Press, 1975.

Gridley, Mark C..  Concise Guide to Jazz.  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 1992.

---.  Jazz Styles.  Seventh Edition.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:  Prentice Hall, 2000.

Grout, Donald and Claude Palisca.  A History of Western Music. Fifth Edition.  New York:  W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1996.

Jaffe, Andy.  Jazz Harmony.  Second edition.  Tuebingen:  Advance Music, 1996.