180-gram vinyl limited edition pressing

Arguably one of the most exciting saxophone soloists in jazz history, Roland Kirk was a post-modernist bsfore that term even existed. Kirk played the continum of jazz tradition as an instrument unto itself, he felt little compunction about mixing and matching elements from the music's history, and his concoctions usually seemed natural, if not inevitable.

Third Dimension was the debut album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Kirk, orginally released as A Triple Threat on the King Label in 1956. The orginal album recieved limitded distribution and only became widley known after it was re-released a few years prior to Kirk's death.

The album features the first recorded example of Kirk's trademark playing of multiple wind instruments at the same time as well as two tracks "Stormy Weather and "The Nearness of You" where he overdubbbed Manzello and Tenor saxaphone. Kirk would later state that the album was about the third overdub record in black classical music.

Personnel:
◾Roland Kirk, tenor saxaphone
◾Manzello & Stritch / James Madison, piano
◾Carl Purit, bass
◾Henry Duncan, drums

Track Listing
Side 1
Roland’s Theme
Slow Groove
Stormy Weather

Side 2
The Nearness Of You
A La Carte
Easy Living
Triple Threat