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Inward Fire

album by Clifford Jordan

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ17014503 ↗
Source-derived summary

Inward Fire is an album by saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recorded in New York City in 1977 and released on the Muse label.

Reception

The Allmusic site rated the album with 4 stars.

DownBeat gave the release 4 stars. The review praised the album saying, "the skillful solo work and crisp rhythms by Louis Hayes, Richard Davis, and Azzedine Weston make this album well worth having".

Editorial summary

“Inward Fire” enters the record as album by Clifford Jordan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Inward, Fire and album 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—1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Inward, Fire and album.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Inward Fire” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Inward, Fire and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 Dec 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17014503. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977.

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
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

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

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  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Inward Fire” 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.