Books

1.  Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals. 2006 .
2.  Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.  W. W. Norton, 2006 . (paperback edition due March 2007. This book has been reviewed many places, including the New York Times Book Review and The New Orleans Times-Picayune.)
3.  Louis Armstrong: In His Own Words.  Oxford University Press, 1999 . (This book has been reviewed in many places, including The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, and The New Republic. Paperback edition published in March 2001)
4.  Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Chromatic Beauty in the Late-Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals.  Cambridge University Press, 1997 . (An electronic edition of this book was released by Cambridge University Press (through the netLibrary service at www.netLibrary.com) in 2002, a paperback edition in 2006. This book has been reviewed in Notes (1999); Music and Letters 80 (1999): 274-281; Journal of the Royal Musical Association (1999); Speculum (1999); and in the Journal of the American Musicological Society (1998).)

Articles

1. "Flats and Chansons in MS Florence, B.N., P. 26." MS Chantilly 564  (2007).
2. T. Brothers. "“New Orleans and the African Musical Diaspora,”."   (2007).  [author's comments]
3. "“Who’s On First, What’s Second, and Where Did They Come From?: The Social-Musical Textures of Early Jazz”." Annual Review of Jazz Studies  (2006).
4. "Louis Armstrong, the 'Saints' and the 'Boys'." Musica Oggi 21 (2001): 5-21.
5. "Music." Lives and Legacies: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World  (2001). Introduction
6. "Accidents in Binchois's Songs." Binchois Studies  (2000): 251-275.
7. "Ideology and Aurality in the Vernacular Traditions of African-American Music." Black Music Research Journal  (1997): 169-209.
8. "Contenance Angloise and Accidentals in Some Motets by Du Fay." Plainsong and Medieval Music .6 (1997): 21-51.
9. "Musica Ficta and Harmony in Machaut's Songs." Journal of Musicology .15 (1997): 501-528.
10. "Sharps in Medee Fu: Questions of Style and Analysis." Studi Musicali .24 (1995): 3-25.
11. "Solo and Cycle in African-American Jazz." The Musical Quarterly 78 (1994): 479-509.
12. "Vestiges of the Isorhythmic Tradition in Masses and Motets, ca. 1450-1475." Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991): 1-56.
13. "Two Chansons Rustiques a 4 by Claudin de Sermisy and Clement Janequin." Journal of the American Musicological Society 34 (1981): 305-324.

Reviews

1.  All of Me: The Complete Discography of Louis Armstrong by Jos Willems. ASRC Journal  (forthcoming).
2. T. Brothers, Review of Pioneers of Jazz: The Story of the Creole Band by Lawrence Gushee. Journal of the American Musicological Society fall 2006 (2007): 747-754.
3. Lawrence Gushee, Pioneers of Jazz: The Creole Band. Journal of the American Musicological Society  (2006).
4. Scott DeVeaux, The Birth of Behop. Brightleaf: A Southern Review of Books  (Spring, 1999): 16-17.
5. Sylvia Huot, Allegorical Play in the Old French Motet: The Sacred and the Profane in Thirteenth-Century Polyphony. Music and Letters 79 (1998): 584-585.
6. Laurence Bergreen, Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life. American Music 16 (1998): 234-236.
7. Yasuhiro Fujioka et al, John Coltrane: A Discography and Musical Biography. Fontes Artis Musicae 43 (1996): 305-6. (Also "Duke Ellington: Day by Day and "Film by Film" by Klaus Strateman; and "Sarah Vaughn: A Discography" by Denis Brown)
8. Rob C. Wegman, Born for the Muses: The Life and Masses of Jacob Obrecht. Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 652-3.
9. Anna Marie Busse Berger, Mensuration and Proportion Signs:Origins of Evolution. Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995): 674-5.

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