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First Flight Out

1994 studio album by Charles McPherson

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 authorityQ55611691 ↗
Source-derived summary

First Flight Out is an album by saxophonist Charles McPherson which was recorded in 1994 and released on the Arabesque label.

Editorial summary

“First Flight Out” enters the record as 1994 studio album by Charles McPherson. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what First, Flight and studio can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1994. Its strongest next move is a source search built around First, Flight and studio.
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Why this record matters

“First Flight Out” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, First, Flight and studio provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q55611691. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1994.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. 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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This entry incorporates text from “First Flight Out” 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.