• The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
• "Women in Jazz" by Sherrie Tucker, from PBS Web Site: Jazz a film by Ken Burns http://pbs.org/jazz/time/time_women.htm
• Females and All That Jazz: Big Bands Database Plus Homepage http://nfo.net
• Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Project -- Smithsonian Institution commitment to the "preservation of jazz as the most significant musical culture to emerge in the United States." http://www.si.edu/ajazzh/johp.htm
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive: A History of Jazz Before 1930 http://www.redhotjazz.com
• The All Music Guide http://www.allmusic.com
• The Iceberg http://www.theiceberg.com/genre/jazz/
• Jazz Grrls http://www.jazzgrrls.com/
• Jazz Break: Women In Jazz http://www.jazzbreak.com/interview.php?lg=1&dossier=456
• 1930s Jazz Excerpts: Excerpts from: 1930s Jazz Publications! 1934 - 1939
  http://afgen.com/30sjazz.html
• The Vocal Group Harmony Web Site http://www.group-harmony.com/JumpChil.htm
• The Mary Lou Williams Women In Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/jazz/womeninjazz/

Reference Materials:

• American women in jazz : 1900 to the present : their words, lives, and music. 1st ed. Sally Placksin. New York: Wideview Books, c1982. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML3508.P58 1982b)
• Black women in American bands & orchestras. D. Antoinette Handy. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1981. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML82.H36)
  
• The International Sweethearts of Rhythm. D. Antoinette Handy. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML421.I6H36 1983)
• Madame Jazz : contemporary women instrumentalists. Leslie Gourse. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML82 .G69 1995)
• Stormy weather : the music and lives of a century of jazzwomen. 1st ed. Linda Dahl. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML82.D3 1984)
  
• Swing shift : "all-girl" bands of the 1940s. Sherrie Tucker. Durham [N.C.]: Duke University Press, 2000. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML82 .T83 2000)
• Swingin' at the Savoy : the memoir of a jazz dancer. Norma Miller with Evette Jensen. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. (General Coll./Floor 3 GV1784 .M556 1996)
  
• Women in jazz : a discography of instrumental music, 1913-1968. compiled by Jan Leder. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, c1985. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML156.4.J3L44 1985)
  
  
• Bessie Smith. Elaine Feinstein. New York: Viking, 1985. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML420.S667F44 1985)
• Between you and me : loving reminiscences. Pearl Bailey. New York : Doubleday, c1989. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML420.B123A3 1989)
• Billie Holiday, her life & times. John White. Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Spellmount Ltd.; New York: Universe Books, 1987. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML420.H58W5 1987)
  
• Blues legacies and Black feminism : Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. Angela Y. Davis. New York: Pantheon Books, c1998. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML3521 .D355 1998)
  
• Ella Fitzgerald : a biography of the first lady of jazz. 1st American ed. Stuart Nicholson. New York: C. Scribner's Sons : Maxwell Macmillan International, 1994, c1993. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML420.F52N5 1994)
• Mother of the Blues. Sandra R. Lieb. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981. (General Coll./Floor 3 ML420.R274L5)
• Talking To Myself. Pearl Bailey. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1971] (ML420.B123A33)
  

• "Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band." Tucker, Sherrie. The Oral History Review, Winter-Spring 1999, v26, p67-.
• "Testosterone Is Not an Instrument." Nat Hentoff. Jazz Times Magazine. http://www.jazztimes.com/finalchorus_testosterone.cfm