Sources

Interviews

• Bob Antolin - Student
• Byron Pope - Co-author of UW Jazz History Curriculum
• Carlos Ward - Met Joe at Seattle Jam Sessions
• Charles McPherson - Knew Joe from Detroit
• David Current - Vista volunteer wrote grants for BAM
• David Friesen - Bassist in Penthouse band
• Ernie Catlett - BAM
• Felton Jones - Trumpet at Detroit sessions
• Frances Brazil - First wife
• Garry Owens - UW Teaching Assistant
• Gary Bartz - Performed at BAM
• Gary Hammon - Student
• George Griffin - Drummer in Penthouse band
• Gregg Keplinger - Band member
• Herman Brown - Band member
• Jay Thomas - First jam session was with Joe
• Jeffrey Winston - UW Teaching Assistant
• Jim Wilke - Recording Engineer
• John Miller - Neighbor in Detroit
• Kenneth Hawkins - BAM
• Larry Gossett - Cofounder Black Student Union
• Mikal Majeed - Student
• Overton Berry - Band member
• Pete Leinonen - Band member
• Ray Baldwin - BAM Band Manager
• Rufus Reid - Band member
• Sonny Fortune - Performed with McCoy Tyner and Brazil at UW
• Virginia Brazil - Second wife, widow, owner of Joe Brazil audio and video tape collection
• Wadie Ervin - BAM

Newspapers

• The Daily of the University of Washington
• The Medium
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer
• Seattle Times

Books

• Armbuster, Kurt (2011). Before Seattle Rocked: A City and Its Music. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press. pp. 264–265. ISBN 978-0-295-99113-9
• Berkman, Franya (2010). Monument Eternal: The Music of Alice Coltrane. Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-8195-6925-7.
• Bjorn, Lars with Jim Gllert, Before Motown: A History of Jazz in Detroit 1920-1960. Ann Arbor, Michigan, The University of Michigan Press. p. 136, 145. ISBN 0-472-06765-6.
• Cole, Bill (1976). John Coltrane. New York, New York: Da Capo Press. p. 169, 180. ISBN 0-306-80530-8.
• de Barros, Paul (1993). Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle. Seattle, Washington: Sasquatch Books. p. 203. ISBN 0-912365-92-7.
• Kahn, Ashley (2002). A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album. Middlesex, England: Viking Penguin. p. 179. ISBN 0-670-03136-4.
• Kahn, Ashley (2006). The House that Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-393-05879-6.
• Porter, Lewis (January 28, 2000). John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. pp. 180, 265, 266. ISBN 978-0472086436.
• Ratliff, Ben (2007). Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 102. ISBN 978-0-374-12606-3.
• Simpkins, C. O. (1975). Coltrane: A Biography. Baltimore, Maryland: Black Classic Press. p. 194. ISBN 0933121-20-2.
• Spring, Evan (2003). Annual Review of Jazz Studies #13. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-0-8108-5945-6.
• Talbert, Paul and Karen Obrien (2020). Wild Isle in the City: Tales from Seward Park's First 100 Years. Seattle, Washington. Friends of Seward Park. p. 266.

Archives

• University of Washington Special Collections
• Seattle Municipal Archives