* _Broken Hearted:The Life and Loves of Billy Strayhorn_ (WW Norton, 2011)
* _Playing Songs of Love:A Study of the Songs of Billy Strayhorn_ (Scarecrow Press, 2002)
* _Billie:The Actress and the Song_ (Plexus Publishing, 2004)
* _Bessie Before The Blues_ (Scarecrow Press, 1999)
* _Lincoln and the Music of the Civil War_ (Southern Illinois University Press, 1995)
* _Leopold Stokowski:A Bio-Bibliography_ (Greenwood Publishing, 1989)
Skjønnlitterære bøker:
* _The Ballad of the Two Toms:A Musical Mystery_ (University Press of Mississippi, 2018)
* _Swing Low, Sweet Handel_ (University Press of Mississippi, 2016)
* _The Music Room:A Novel of Scott Joplin and Treemonisha_ (University Press of Mississippi, 2014)
* _Beethoven and the Boys:A Novel of Three Loves and a Revolution_ (University Press of Mississippi, 2012)
Bøker med musikalsk fremføring:
* _The Broadway Song:An Illustrated History_ (Barnes and Noble Books, 1995)
* _Music at Work in the Great American Songbook_ (Praeger, 2002)
Bidrag til musikalsk biografi:
* _Duke Ellington (American Popular Music Series)_ (Popular Press, 1989)
* _Dizzy Gillespie (American Popular Music Series)_ (Popular Press, 1990)
* _Bix Beiderbecke:A Biography_ (Greenwood Publishing, 1992)
* _Louis Armstrong:Remembering Pops on His 100th Birthday_ (Scarecrow Press, 2001)
* _Benny Goodman:King of Swing_ (Stackpole Books, 1997)
* _Nat King Cole:A Biography_ (Da Capo Press, 1998)
* _Sidney Bechet:The Wizard of Jazz_ (Billboard Books, 2004)
Bøker med musikalsk fremføring:
* _The Broadway Song:An Illustrated History_ (Barnes and Noble Books, 1995)
* _Music at Workin the Great American Songbook_ (Praeger, 2002)