This is NOT a full complete bibliography neither a scholastic study on the topic. Listed here are just the books I always refer to when I work on articles for this blog. Some are more essential than other but I'm grateful to their authors for the countless info i've been able to learn and share thanks to their primary researches.
About Cab
Of Minnie The Moocher And Me
Cab CALLOWAY and Bryant ROLLINS
Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1976
Hi de Ho - The Life of Cab Calloway
Alyn SHIPTON
Oxford University Press, 2010
The King of Hi-De-Ho - Cab Calloway
Dempsey J. TRAVIS
Urban Jazz Series, Vol. VI, 1994
(also published in An Autobiography of Black Jazz, Dempsey J. Travis, Urban Research Institute, 1983)
By or About Cab Calloway's musicians
Groovin' High - The life of Dizzy Gillespie
Alyn SHIPTON
Oxford University Press, 1999
Dizzy - The Life and Times of John Birk Gillespie
Donald L. MAGGIN
Harper Collins, 2005
I Guess I'll Get The Papers And Go Home - The Life of Doc Cheatham
Adolphus 'Doc' Cheatahm, edited by Alyn SHIPTON, discography by Howard RYE
Cassel, 1998
Jazz From The Beginning
Garvin BUSHELL as told to mark TUCKER
Da Capo Press, 1998
Someone To Watch Over Me - The Life and Music of Ben Webster
Frank BÜCHMANN-MØLLER
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS, 2006
Playing the Changes - Milt Hinton's life in Stories and Photographs
Milt HINTON, David G. BERGER, Holly MAXSON
Vanderbilt University Press, 2008
To be continued...
Other bands and musicians
To be continued...
About the Era
To be continued...
About the Society
To be continued...
About Jazz in general
To be continued...