Introduction
1. Bill Kirchner, ed., Oxford Companion to Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 3.
2. James Haskins, Black Music in America: A History Through Its People (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1987), p. 37.
3. Ibid., p. 44.
4. Grover Sales, Jazz: America’s Classical Music (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1984), p. 13.
5. Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 395.
Chapter 1: Louis Armstrong
1. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Jazz: A History of America’s Music (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), pp. 41–42.
2. Ibid., p. 40.
3. Robert Gottlieb, ed., Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996), p. 23.
4. Ward and Burns, p. 115.
5. Ibid., p. 117.
Chapter 2: Duke Ellington
1. David Bradbury, Duke Ellington (London: Haus Publishing, 2005), p. 4.
2. Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 118.
3. Bradbury, p. 17.
4. Gioia, p. 122.
5. Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, Jazz: A History of America’s Music (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000), p. 118.
Chapter 3: Ella Fitzgerald
1. Robert Gottlieb, ed., Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996), pp. 980–981.
2. Tanya Lee Stone, Ella Fitzgerald (New York: Viking, 2008), p. 25.
3. Stuart Nicholson, Ella Fitzgerald: A Biography of the First Lady of Jazz (New York: Da Capo Press, 1995), p. 5.
4. Ibid., p. 13.
5. Ibid., p. 12.
6. Stone, p. 19.
7. Bill Kirchner, ed., Oxford Companion to Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 241.
Chapter 4: Dizzy Gillespie
1. Ted Gioia, The History of Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 209.
2. Robert Gottlieb, ed., Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996), p. 600.
3. Studs Terkel, Giants of Jazz (New York: Thomas Crowell Company, 1975), p. 155.
4. Billy Taylor, Jazz Piano: A Jazz History (Dubuque, Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, 1982), p. 143.
5. John Fordham, Jazz (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1993), p. 113.
6. Ibid.
7. Terkel, p. 161.
Chapter 5: Charlie Parker
1. Bill Kirchner, ed., Oxford Companion to Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 319.
2. Ibid., p. 320.
3. Studs Terkel, Giants of Jazz (New York: Thomas Crowell Company, 1975), p. 164.
4. John Fordham, Jazz (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1993), pp. 110–111.
5. Robert Gottlieb, ed., Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996), p. 1031.
6. Terkel, p. 168.
7. Ibid., p. 167.
8. Kirchner, p. 331.
Chapter 6: Miles Davis
1. Bill Kirchner, ed., Oxford Companion to Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 391.
2. Robert Gottlieb, ed., Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996), pp. 580–581.
3. Grover Sales, Jazz: America’s Classical Music (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1984), p. 171.
4. Malcolm Jones, “The Blue and the Great,” Newsweek, January 31, 2009, p. 63.
5. John Fordham, Jazz (New York: Dorling Kindersley, 1993), p. 115.
6. Kirchner, p. 402.
Chapter 7: John Coltrane
1. Ashley Kahn, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album (New York: Viking, 2002), p. 7.
2. Ibid., p. 6.
3. Ibid., p. 8.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., p. 10.
6. Ibid.
7. Robert Gottlieb, ed., Reading Jazz: A Gathering of Autobiography, Reportage, and Criticism from 1919 to Now (New York: Pantheon Books, 1996), p. 246.
8. Bill Kirchner, ed., Oxford Companion to Jazz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 436.
9. Ibid., p. 437.
10. Gottlieb, p. 247.
11. Kirchner, p. 443.
Chapter 8: Herbie Hancock
1. Len Lyons, The Great Jazz Pianists Speaking of Their Lives and Music (New York: Quill, 1983), p. 271.
2. Ibid., pp. 271–272.
3. Ibid., p. 272.
4. Andrew Bruse, Herbie Hancock: Outside the Comfort Zone, JamBase, August 14, 2007, <http://www.jambase.com/Articles/11098/Herbie-Hancock-Outside-The-Comfort-Zone/2> (May 27, 2010).
5. Lyons, p. 283.