In compiling these pages (the ‘Heroes’ articles in particular) I read a lot of books. Below is a selected bibliography of some which I have found particularly enjoyable and/or useful regarding drummers, drumming and the music world in general during the early part of the Twentieth century.

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THE AMERICAN DANCE BAND DISCOGRAPHY 1917-1942 [Vols. 1 & 2] by Brian Rust, 1975

AND THE BANDS PLAYED ON: AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF BRITISH DANCE BANDS by Sid Colin, 1977

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF POPS FOSTER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZMAN by George ‘Pops’ Foster with Tom Stoddard, 2005

THE BABY DODDS STORY by Warren ‘Baby’ Dodds with Larry Gara, 1959

THE BOOK OF JAZZ, FROM THEN TO NOW by Leonard Feather, 1965

CHICAGO JAZZ: A CULTURAL HISTORY, 1904-30 by William Howland Kenney, 1994

THE COON-SANDERS NIGHTHAWKS: THE BAND THAT MADE RADIO FAMOUS by Fred W. Edmiston, 2003

THE DANCE BAND ERA: THE DANCING DECADES FROM RAGTIME TO SWING, 1910-50 by Albert McCarthy, 1971

DRUMMIN’ MEN: THE HEARTBEAT OF JAZZ by Burt Korall, 1990

DICTIONNAIRE DU JAZZ by Hugues Pannassie and Madeleine Gautier, 1954

EARLY JAZZ: ITS ROOTS AND MUSICAL DEVELOPMENT by Gunther Schuller, 1968

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAZZ by Leonard Feather, 1960

ENGLISH RAGTIME: A DISCOGRAPHY by Edward S. Walker, 1971

THE EVOLUTION OF JAZZ IN BRITAIN, 1880-1935 by Catherine Parsonage, 2005

50 HOT CYMBAL BREAKS AND 70 MODERN DRUM BEATS by Ralph P. Smith, 1929

50 SYNCOPATED BREAKS FOR CYMBAL AND DRUMS by Eric Little, 1927

THE FABULOUS FIVES: A FULL DISCOGRAPHY by Horst H. Lange, 1959

THE FIRST STEP: HOW TO PLAY THE CYMBAL AND DRUMS by Eric Little, 1928

AU FRONTIÈRES DE JAZZ by Robert Goffin, 1932

GENE KRUPA: HIS LIFE & TIMES by Bruce Crowther, 1987

THE GUINNESS JAZZ COMPANION by Peter Claytton & Peter Gammond, 1986

THE GUIDE TO VINTAGE DRUMS by John Aldridge, 1994

HAMP: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Lionel Hampton with James Haskins, 1989

HARLEM IN MONTMARTRE: A PARIS JAZZ STORY BETWEEN THE GREAT WARS by William A. Shack, 2001

HEAR ME TALKIN’ TO YA: THE STORY OF JAZZ AS TOLD BY THE MEN WHO MADE IT by Nat Shapiro & Nat Hentoff, 1955

HOT JAZZ: FROM HARLEM TO STORYVILLE by David Griffiths, 1998

HOW TO PLAY DRUMS IN MODERN DANCE ORCHESTRAS by Charles E. Harris, 1925

IRVING BERLIN AND RAGTIME AMERICA by Ian Whitcomb, 1987

JAZZ ANECDOTES by Bill Crow, 1990

JAZZ AND RAGTIME RECORDS, 1897-1942 [Vols. 1 & 2] by Brian Rust, revised 2002

JAZZ: FROM CONGO TO SWING by Robert Goffin, 1946

JAZZ MASTERS OF THE TWENTIES by Richard Hadlock, 1965

JAZZ MASTERS OF NEW ORLEANS by Martin Williams, 1979

JAZZ ON THE RIVER by William Howland Kenney, 2005

JELLY ROLL, BIX & HOAGY: GENNETT RECORDS AND THE RISE OF AMERICA’S MUSICAL GRASSROOTS by Rick Kennedy, 1999

KANSAS CITY JAZZ: FROM RAGTIME TO BEBOP – A HISTORY by Frank Driggs & Chuck Haddix, 2005

KING OLIVER by Martin Williams, 1960

LOST CHORDS: WHITE MUSICIANS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO JAZZ, 1915-45 by Richard M. Sudhalter, 2001

LOST SOUNDS: BLACKS AND THE BIRTH OF THE RECORDING INDUSTRY, 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks, 2004

MAX ON SWING by Max Bacon, 1934

MISTER JELLY ROLL by Alan Lomax with Jelly Roll Morton, 1950

MODERN STYLE (SWING) DRUMMING: A COMPREHENSIVE COURSE by Bill Harty, 1939

NEW ORLEANS STYLE by Bill Russell, ed. Barry Martyn & Mike Hazeldine, 1994

NEW YORK DRUMMERS [from AMERICAN MUSICIANS: 72 PORTRAITS IN JAZZ] by Whitney Balliett, 1986

OLD NEW ORLEANS by Stanley Clisby Arthur, 1936

A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF JAZZ by Orrin Keepnews & Bill Grauer, 1968

PIONEERS OF JAZZ: THE STORY OF THE CREOLE BAND by Lawrence Gushee, 2005

POPS: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG by Terry Teachout, 2010

POPULAR MUSIC OF THE TWENTIES by Ronald Pearsall, 1976

PROHIBITION: THIRTEEN YEARS THAT CHANGED AMERICA by Edward Behr, 1996

RAGTIME: A MUSICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY by Edward A. Berlin, 1980

REALLY THE BLUES by Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, 1946

REMEMBERING BIX: A MEMOIR OF THE JAZZ AGE by Ralph Berton, 1974

REMINISCING IN TEMPO: A PORTRAIT OF DUKE ELLINGTON by Stuart Nicholson, 1999

‘SOME HUSTLING THIS!’ – TAKING JAZZ TO THE WORLD, 1914-39 by Mark Miller, 2005

SCOTT JOPLIN AND THE RAGTIME ERA by Peter Gammond, 1975

SHINING TRUMPETS by Rudi Blesh, 1946

THE STORY OF THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND by Harry O. Brunn, 1960

THE SWING ERA by Gunther Schuller, 1989

THAT CRAZY MUSIC: THE STORY OF NORTH AMERICAN JAZZ by Elliot Paul, 1957

THIRTY YEARS WITH THE BIG BANDS by Arthur Rollini, 1995

WE CALLED IT MUSIC by Eddie Condon, 1947

WHO’S WHO OF JAZZ by John Chilton, 1970.