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One for Junior

Mark Murphy album

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ125887147 ↗
Source-derived summary

One for Junior is a 1991 studio album by Mark Murphy.

One for Junior is the 30th studio album by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy. The album is a collaboration with Sheila Jordan. It was recorded in 1991 when Murphy was 59 years old and released by the Muse label in the United States in 1993. The album is a tribute to Junior Morrow. Murphy contributes the composition "One for Junior", co-written with Sheila Jordan.

Background

Sheila Jordan and Mark Murphy were longtime friends. After a concert they gave together in Cleveland in 1991 they decided to record an album together for Muse. Murphy and Jordan met at her home in New York to decide on the material they would include. In the title for the album, "Junior" is a reference to painter Helen Mayer, a longtime friend of Jordan and Murphy.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “One for Junior” is mark Murphy album. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Junior, Mark and Murphy, 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—1991, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. For this dossier, Junior, Mark and Murphy is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “mark Murphy album” 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 Feb 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q125887147. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1991 and 1993.

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

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “One for Junior” 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.