- Duke Ellington in Person: An Intimate Memoir (A Da Capo paperback) by Mercer Ellington, 1979-09
- Ellingtonia: The Recorded Music of Duke Ellington and His Sidemen (Studies in Jazz) by W. E. Timner, 2007-11-29
- Duke Ellington and His World by A. H. Lawrence, 2003-09-08
- Duke Ellington on Compact Disc an Index and Text of the Recorded Works of Duke Ellington by Jerry Valburn, 1993-06
- The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and the Sound of the Harlem Renaissance by Jonathan Gross, Mack" Jay Jordan, 2010-02-01
- Reminiscing In Tempo: A Portrait of Duke Ellington by Stuart Nicholson, 2000-10-19
- Great Jazz Standards of Duke Ellington / Book & CD (Jazz Masters Series) by Fred Sokolow, 1999-07-19
- The Essential Duke Ellington by Music Sales Corporation, 1995-12-31
- Duke Ellington, day by day and film by film by Klaus Stratemann, 1992
- King of All, Sir Duke: Ellington and the Artistic Revolution by Peter Lavezzoli, 2001-04-15
- The Duke Ellington Primer by Dempsey J. Travis, 1996-05
- Ellington Uptown: Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and the Birth of Concert Jazz (Jazz Perspectives) by John Howland, 2009-03-25
- Duke: The Musical Life of Duke Ellington by Bill Gutman, 2009-09-30
- The Life and Times of Duke Ellington (Masters of Music) by John Bankston, 2004-05
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