* _All Blues: Jazz and the African American Novel_ (2007)
* _Overture to the Blues_ (2009)
* _The Jazz History Club Guidebook to Jazz_ (2010)
* _Improv: A Jazz Journey around the World_ (2011)
* _The Legacy of Duke Ellington_ (2012)
* _The Louis Armstrong Reader_ (2013)
* _The Roots of Jazz_ (2014)
* _The Miles Davis Reader_ (2014)
* _The John Coltrane Reader_ (2016)
* _Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original_ (2017)
* _Art Blakey: Jazz Messenger and African Activist_ (2018)
Non-fiction:
* _The African-American Novel in the Twentieth Century_ (1999)
* _African-American Literature and Jazz: A Call and Response_ (1999)
* _African-American Literature and Visual Arts_ (2000)
* _African-American Literature and Music: A Bibliography_ (2001)
* _African-American Literature and Drama_ (2002)
* _African-American Literature and Film: A Bibliography_ (2003)
* _African-American Literature and Social Issues_ (2004)
* _African-American Literature and Popular Culture_ (2005)
* _Jazz & the African-American Novel: A Literary Perspective_ (2006)
* _The Blues and African-American Literature: A Literary Perspective_ (2008)
* _American Literature and Music_ (2015)
* _American Literature and Film_ (2016)
* _American Literature and Social Issues_ (2017)
Edited collections:
* _The Jazz Tradition: Collected Essays_ (1998)
* _The Harlem Renaissance: Collected Essays_ (1999)
* _The Black Arts Movement: Collected Essays_ (2000)
* _The Civil Rights Movement: Collected Essays_ (2001)
* _African-American Literature: Collected Essays_ (2002)
* _Jazz and the African-American Novel: Collected Essays_ (2003)
* _The Blues in African-American Culture: Collected Essays_ (2004)
* _American Literature and Music: Collected Essays_ (2005)
* _American Literature and Film: Collected Essays_ (2006)
* _African-American Literature and the Blues: Collected Essays_ (2008)
* _The Jazz History Club Guidebook to Jazz: Collected Essays_ (2009)
Children's books:
* _Jazz ABC: A Collection of Jazz for Children_ (2010)
* _The Jazz History Club Guidebook to Jazz for Kids_ (2011)
Poetry chapbooks:
- *Blues Lyric, Blues Song* (2010)
- *Harmolodic Blues* (2016)