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American-African Blues

1992 live album by Ricky Ford

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ39054048 ↗
Source-derived summary

American-African Blues is an album by saxophonist Ricky Ford.

Recording and music

American-African Blues was recorded in concert at Birdland, New York City, on September 16, 1991. It is a quartet recording, with leader Ricky Ford (tenor sax) joined by Jaki Byard (piano), Milt Hinton (bass), and Ben Riley (drums). The album was produced by Mark Morgarelli.

Track listing

All compositions are by Ricky Ford.

Editorial summary

“American-African Blues” enters the record as 1992 live album by Ricky Ford. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what American-African, Blues and live can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1992. Its strongest next move is a source search built around American-African, Blues and live.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“American-African Blues” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, American-African, Blues and live provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q39054048. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

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.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “American-African Blues”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow American-African Blues primary sources, American-African Blues archive and American-African research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “American-African Blues”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “American-African Blues” 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.