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Horses & Trees

album by Ginger Baker

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ5905924 ↗
Source-derived summary

Horses & Trees is an album by the English drummer Ginger Baker, released on 6 January 1986 by Celluloid Records. The album is entirely instrumental and contains six dance-oriented songs.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Horses & Trees” as album by Ginger Baker. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Horses, Trees 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—1986—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Horses, Trees and album providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Horses & Trees”, the useful work is to connect “album by Ginger Baker” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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 Mar 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5905924. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986.

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.

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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  • Identifying works and editions
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Horses & Trees”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Horses & Trees primary sources, Horses & Trees archive and Horses 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 “Horses & Trees”?
  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 “Horses & Trees” 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.