New York: Collier Books, (1974). Includes chapters on some of the great figures who defined jazz for the world: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Earl Hines, Bix Beiderbecke, Fats Waller, Jack Teagarden, Fletcher Henderson. Photographs. Suggested reading and a discography at the end of each chapter. 255 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, (1957.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Famous Biographies For Young People series. Includes brief but pointed and informative biographies on Louis 'Satchmo' Armstrong, Lena Horne, Josephine Baker, Paul Robeson, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., Harry Belafronte, Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson, Bill Bojangles Robinson, Eartha Kitt, Fats Waller and more. Illustrated. Index. 122 pp. Uncommon in the first edition.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important book by one of jazz's most distinguished critics - includes reviews, essays about musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes. by one of jazz's most distinguished critics, divided into sections, includes a collection of reviews of Ella Fitzgerald, Ornette Coleman, Bud Powell, Ellington, Fats Waller and many others; depictions of musicians at work recording, rehearsing and performing as well as a selection of album liner notes for Jelly Roll Morton, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and others. Index. xiv, 253 pp. ISBN: 0-195036115.