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References
- 1 2 Kernfeld, Barry (2002). Barry Kernfeld (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, vol. 1 (2nd ed.). New York: Grove's Dictionaries Inc. p. 325. ISBN 1561592846.
- ↑ All about jazz Archived 2012-10-22 at the Wayback Machine
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