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Baraka (album)

album by Ken Vandermark

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ19873035 ↗
Source-derived summary

Baraka is an album by the DKV Trio, composed of drummer Hamid Drake, bassist Kent Kessler and reedist Ken Vandermark. It was recorded in 1997 and released on Okka Disk.

The DKV Trio was assembled by Vandermak in the summer of 1994 for the recording project Standards.

The band's first album was the limited edition CD DKV Live, recorded on December 26, 1996, at the Chicago Lunar Cabaret and also released on Okka Disk.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Baraka (album)” as album by Ken Vandermark. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1997, 1994, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. The account is most persuasive where Baraka, album and Vandermark can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Ken Vandermark. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Q19873035. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1994 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Baraka (album)” 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.