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- ↑ "Aunt Hagar's Blues". Jazzstandards.com. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ↑ Williams, Martin (1983). "Art Tatum: Not for the Left Hand Alone". American Music. 1 (1): 36–40. doi:10.2307/3051572. JSTOR 3051572.
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