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Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard

1977 live album by Dexter Gordon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ65084215 ↗
Source-derived summary

Homecoming is a live double LP by jazz saxophonist Dexter Gordon, recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City in 1976. The album's title refers to Gordon's return to the United States after a long residency in Europe.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard” is 1977 live album by Dexter Gordon. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Homecoming, Live and Village, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977. For this dossier, Homecoming, Live and Village is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “1977 live album by Dexter Gordon” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Aug 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65084215. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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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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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard primary sources, Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard archive and Homecoming 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 “Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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This entry incorporates text from “Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard” 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.