Encyclopedia of African American Music:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/encyclopedia-of-african-american-music-9780313342004/

Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
Named one of the 10 books highlighting racial injustice and resistance in jazz by WGBO.
https://www.wbgo.org/post/10-books-highlighting-history-racial-injustice-and-resistance-jazz#stream/0 

https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p085536

Music in American Black Life, 1945-2020
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=38hns4qm9780252044588