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A Bucketful of Soul

album by Trudy Pitts

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ16245009 ↗
Source-derived summary

A Bucketful of Soul is the third album by jazz organist Trudy Pitts which was recorded in late 1967 and early 1968 and released on the Prestige label.

Track listing

All compositions by Trudy Pitts except where noted.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “A Bucketful of Soul” as album by Trudy Pitts. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bucketful, Soul and album.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1967, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bucketful, Soul and album providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “A Bucketful of Soul”, the useful work is to connect “album by Trudy Pitts” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16245009. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 1968.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “A Bucketful of Soul” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.