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- ↑ "Francis Williams, Trumpeter; Played With Ellington Band", New York Times, 1983-10-04, retrieved 2018-03-27
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- General references
- Eddie Lambert, "Francis Williams". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 1991, p. 1292.
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