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Ragged Jack

album by Jamie Saft, Cuong Vu

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ17066029 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ragged Jack is an album by keyboardist Jamie Saft and trumpeter Cuong Vu which was released on the Japanese Avant label in 1997.

Reception

In his review for Allmusic, Nitsuh Abebe notes that "The resulting sessions have a fractured bop feel that might be marginally influenced by the downtown scene, but tend more toward solid, "traditional" free-jazz".

Track listing

All compositions by Cuong Vu except as indicated

"Garbo" - 5:05

"Mr.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ragged Jack” as album by Jamie Saft, Cuong Vu. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ragged, Jack 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—1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-05-20. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ragged, Jack 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 “Ragged Jack”, the useful work is to connect “album by Jamie Saft, Cuong Vu” 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 May 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17066029. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ragged Jack” 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.