A GIFT FROM THE MUSICIANS TO THE WORLD
THEY STARTED IN NEW ORLEANS AND GAVE JAZZ TO THE WORLD!
  • THE FRENCH QUARTER by Herbert Ashbury
    Published by Walter C. Allen, Belleville, N.J., Pocket Books, New York
  • JAZZ NEW ORLEANS 1885-1957 by Samuel B. Chartres
    Published by Walter C. Allen, Belleville, N.J.
  • A TRUMPET AROUND THE CORNER by Samuel B. Chartres
    University Press of Mississippi 2008, ISBN 9781578068982
  • MORTONS MUSIC by John R.T. Davies / Laurie Wright
    Printed by Storyville Publications 1968
  • LOUIS – The Louis Armstrong Story by Max Jones & John Chilton
    Published by Studio Vista Publishers 1971, ISBN 0289702151
  • LOUIS ARMSTRONG in his own words
    Published by Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN 0195119584
  • SATCHMO by Gary Giddings
    Produced by Toby Byron – ANCHOR BOOKS, ISBN 0385244290
  • BOURBON STREET BLACK – The N.O. Black Jazzman,
    by Jack V. Buerkle/Danny Barker, Published by Oxford University Press, N.Y. 1973, ISBN 019501832x
  • THE JAZZ CRUSADE by Big Bill Bissonnette, Great N.O. Jazz Revival
    of the 60’s, Published by Special Request Books, Bridgeport, ISBN 0963229702
  • TRADITIONALISTS & REVIVALISTS IN JAZZ
    written by Chip Deffaa, Scarecrow Press, ISBN 0810827042
  • GEORGE LEWIS – A Jazzman from New Orleans, by Tom Bethell
    University of California Press 1977, ISBN 0520032138
  • TREAT IT GENTLE – SIDNEY BECHET by Sidney Bechet
    Introduction by Rudi Blesh, Da Capo Press, New York, ISBN 0306800861
  • THE LEGACY OF THE BLUES, an informal study, by Samuel Chartres 1975
    Published by Calder & Boyars Ltd., London, ISBN 071451098
  • HEAR ME TALKIN’ TO YA, The Story of Jazz as told by the men who made it,
    by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Dover Publications Inc., New York
  • MISTER JELLY ROLL, The fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole
    and „Inventor of Jazz“ by Alan Lomax 1973, University of California Press, ISBN 0520024028
  • A GUIDE TO JAZZ IN NEW ORLEANS by Rhodes Spedale Jr.
    Hope Publications New Orleans, ISBN 0940594080
  • JAZZ ON THE ROAD Don Albert’s Musical Life by Christopher Wilkinson
    University of California Press 2001, ISBN 0520225406
  • CLASSIC JAZZ by Floyd Levin, Foreword by Benny Carter
    University of California Press 2000, ISBN 0520213602
  • PLEASANT COUSIN JOE JOSEPH, Blues from New Orleans by Pleasant
    Joseph and Harriet J. Ottenheimer, The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226411982
  • WHO’S WHO OF JAZZ by John Chilton, Published by The Bloomsbury
    Book Shop London 1970, foreword by Johnny Simmen, ISBN 950129003
  • GUIDE TO JAZZ by Hugues Panassié & Madeleine Gauthier,
    The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1956
  • NEW ORLEANS JAZZ – A FAMILY ALBUM by Al Rose & Doc Souchon
    Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Library of Congress, No. 66-25975
  • STORYVILLE, NEW ORLEANS, Authentic, illustrated, by Al Rose – 1974
    University of Alabama Press, ISBN 0817344039
  • NEW ORLEANS, Photos by Bernard M. Hermann, Text by Charles „Pie“
    Dufour, Published by Louisiana Press 1980, ISBN 0807107999
  • LOUIS ARMSTRONG’S NEW ORLEANS by Thomas Brothers 2006
    Published by W.W. Norton, New York, ISBN 0393061094
  • GOLDEN AGE IN JAZZ by William P. Gottlieb
    Published by Pomegranate Artbooks, ISBN 0876543557
  • BLUE NOTE JAZZ PHOTOGRAPHY by Francis Wolff – 2000
    Published by Universe Publishing, New York,
    Pictures of Bunk Johnson, Baby Dodds, S. Bechet, ISBN 0789304937
  • TRUMPET KINGS by Scott Yanow – 2001
    Published by Backbeat Books, San Francisco, ISBN 0879306408
  • KEEPING THE BEAT ON THE STREET – New Orleans Brass Bands, by Mick Burns – 2006,
    Published by Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0807130486
  • SONG FOR MY FATHERS, A New Orleans Story in Black & White
    by Tom Sancton – 2006 – rare photos, Published by Other Press, New York, ISBN 9781590512432
  • HIGH SOCIETY – My friends the N.O. Clarinettists by Henning Bokelund
    Published by Golden Triads, Holte, Denmark – 2002, ISBN 8798853104
  • PRESERVATION HALL – Music from the Heart by William Carter
    W.W. Norton & Co., New York, ISBN 0393029158
  • A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF JAZZ by Keepnews & Grauer
    Crown Publishers, New York – 1955, Library of Congress No. 55-10174
  • SIMON SAYS – The Sights & Sounds of the Swing Era by George T. Simon
    Published by Arlington House, New Rochelle, New York, ISBN 0870001353
  • THE WORLD THAT MADE NEW ORLEANS by Ned Sublette – 2008
    Published by Lawrence Hill Books Chicago, ISBN 9781556527302
  • PIONEERS OF JAZZ, Creole Bands by Lawrence Gushee – 2005
    Oxford University Press, New York, ISBN 0195161319
  • THE STREET THAT NEVER SLEPT – N. Y. 52nd Street by Arnold Shaw 1971
    Coward McCann & Geoghegan Inc., New York, Library of Congress No. 76-154776
  • CREOLE FEAST – 15 Master Chefs of New Orleans
    319 individualized recipes of the art of Creole Cooking, Published by Random House Inc., New York,
    written by Nathaniel Burton & Rudy Lombbard, ISBN 394413288
  • CAJUN COOKING – Succulent Recipes from Louisiana, by Marjie Lambert
    Published by Apple Press, London – 1991, ISBN 1850763364
  • CHEF PAUL PRUDHOMME’S LOUISIANA KITCHEN by Paul Prudhomme
    – 1984, Publisher William Morrow & Co. Inc., New York, ISBN 0688028470
  • JAZZ LIFE – A Journey for Jazz 1960 by William Claxton / Berendt
    Published by Taschen, Köln, Hong Kong – 2000
  • WALKING TO NEW ORLEANS, The Story of New Orleans Rhythm & Blues
    by John Broven–1974, Published by Blues Unlimited, Bexhill-on-Seau, Sussex U.K.
  • PROFOUNDLY BLUE – EDMOND HALL, Published by Manfred Selchow
    – 1988, Eekeweg 14, D-Westoverledingen, Germany
  • REALLY THE BLUES by Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe
    Published by Corgi Books, London – 1961, Copyright Random House, New York
  • A GUIDE TO JAZZ IN NEW ORLEANS
    by Rhodes Spedale Jr – 1984, Published by Hope Publications, N.O.
  • THE GUINNESS JAZZ COMPANION
    by Clayton & Gammond – 1989, Published by Guinness Publ. Inc., London – ISBN 0851123627
  • THEY ALL PLAYED RAGTIME
    by Rudi Blesh & Harriet Janis – 1966, Published by Oak Publications Inc., N.Y., Library of Congress No. 66-19054
  • THE BABY DODDS STORY, As told to Larry Gara – 1959, Published by Contemporary Press, Los Angeles
  • IF YOU KNOW OF A BETTER LIFE
    a Bashall Eaves Publication, Dublin, by Bud Freeman – ISBN 0902638025
  • DRUMMIN’ MEN, The heartbeat of Jazz
    by Burt Korall 1990, Published by Schirmer Books, New York, ISBN 0028720008
  • A LEFT HAND LIKE GOD
    a study of Boogie-Woogie, Published by Quartet Books Ltd., London, by Peter Sylvester 1988
  • DICTIONNAIRE DU JAZZ
    by Hugues Panassié & Madeleine Gautier, Published by Robert Laffond, Paris – 1954
  • POPS FOSTER – New Orleans Jazzman
    University of California Press, Berkeley, as told to Tom Stoddard – 1973 – ISBN 0520023552
  • PIANO MAN – The Story of Ralph Sutton
    by James D. Shacter – 1975, Published by Hickox Productions, Phoenix, Library of Congress No. 74-33922
  • THE BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ
    by Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler – 1999, Published by Oxford University Press, N.Y. – ISBN 0195074181
  • LIVING WITH JAZZ
    by Dan Morgenstein – 2004, Published by Random House Inc., New York – ISBN 037542072X
  • MYSELF AMONG OTHERS – A life in Music, by George Wein,
  • Published by Perseus Book Group, Cambridge MA, First Da Capo Press Edition – 2003, ISBN 0306811146
  • THE WORLD OF SWING
    by Stanley Dance, Published by Da Capo Press Inc., New York – ISBN 0306801035
  • SHINING TRUMPETS – A History of Jazz
    by Rudi Blesh, Published by Da Capo Press Inc., New York – ISBN 0306800292
  • SATCHMO – The wonderful world of Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven
    Brower, ca 2005, Published by Harry Abrams Inc., N.Y. – ISBN 9780810995284, Printed in China
  • JAZZ – A History of American Music by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns
    – 2000, Published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House Inc., N.Y., ISBN 067944551X