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In Pursuit of the 13th Note

album by Galliano

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 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ6010509 ↗
Source-derived summary

In Pursuit of the 13th Note is the debut album by United Kingdom acid jazz group Galliano. It was released on Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud record label on 25 March 1991. Although a studio album, the performances were recorded live.

Editorial summary

“In Pursuit of the 13th Note” enters the record as album by Galliano. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pursuit, 13th and Note 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 1991-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pursuit, 13th and Note.
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“In Pursuit of the 13th Note” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pursuit, 13th and Note provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Mar 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6010509. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “In Pursuit of the 13th Note” 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.