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- ↑ Cary Ginell, Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing (University of Illinois Press, 1994), p. 104.
- ↑ Jean Ann Boyd, The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing (University of Texas Press, 1998), p. 38.
- ↑ Rapoport, K. (2009). Violin For Dummies. Wiley. ISBN 9780470677131 . Retrieved 2015-04-10.
- ↑ The New York Times, February 28, 1985, quoted in Sanford Josephson, Jazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations (Greenwood, 2009), p. 30.
- ↑ Horizon, January /February 1989, quoted in Sanford Josephson, Jazz Notes: Interviews across the Generations (Greenwood, 2009), p. 28.