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- ↑ allaboutjazz.com Archived December 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Best of 2006 - Top 25 Indie CDs Archived 2010-02-05 at the Wayback Machine Indie Music
- ↑ Blue Note New York Performance Schedule
- ↑ Dan Bilawsky, Beat Kaestli: Invitation (2010) May 7, 2010
- ↑ "Beat Goes on".
