General and history
Autobiography and biography Louis Armstrong
Teachout, Terry. Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. (2009)
Count Basie
Art Blakey
John Coltrane
Bing Crosby Giddins, Gary. Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams (2001) Giddins, Gary. Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star (2018)
Miles Davis
Duke Ellington
Teachout, Terry. Duke. (2013)
Bill Evans
Ella Fitzgerald
Dizzy Gillespie
Benny Goodman
Billie Holiday
Pat Metheny Cooke, Mervyn. Pat Metheny: The ECM Years (2017) Niles, Richard. The Pat Metheny Interviews (2009)
Charles Mingus
Thelonious Monk
Charlie Parker
Art Pepper
Sonny Rollins
Fats Waller
Instruction
Instruments – history Drums
Guitar
Piano
Trumpet
Photography
Record labels