Coady, Christopher (2009) ‘Eliington in the Third Stream: A New Perspective on the Fugal Works of the Modern Jazz Quartet’. Jazzforschung 41/1: 65–82.

Ellison, Ralph (1962) ‘On Bird, Bird-Watching and Jazz’. The Saturday Review, available online at http://www.unz.org/Pub/SaturdayRev-1962jul28-00047 (accessed 7 April 2017). Reprinted in Ralph Ellison, Shadow and Act, 221–32. New York: Vintage Books, 1995.

Gagatsis, Alexander (2015) ‘Bags Still Grooves: Performance Strategies in Milt Jackson’s Improvisations’. Jazz Perspectives 9/2: 137–71. https://doi.org/10.1080/17494060.2016.1202306

Hentoff, Nat (1957) ‘Liner notes’. Plenty, Plenty Soul. Atlantic 1269, LP.

Hertzman, Marc A. (2013) Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil. Durham and London: Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822391906

Keil, Charles (1966) Urban Blues. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Monson, Ingrid (1994) ‘Doubleness and Jazz Improvisation: Irony, Parody, and Ethnomusicology’. Critical Inquiry 20/2: 283–313. https://doi.org/10.1086/448712

Page, Ben (1970) ‘Open Bags: An Interview with Milt Jackson’. Downbeat (30 April): 18–20.

Palmer, Richard (1986) ‘Milt Jackson Revisited Part I’. Jazz Journal International 39/5: 8–10.

—(2010) ‘Milt Jackson Reconsidered, Part III’. Jazz Journal 63/3 (March): 10–12.