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Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Third Dimension & Beyond 'November 9, 1956 - June 7, 1960

Third Dimension & Beyond
ArtistRahsaan Roland Kirk Related artists
Album name Third Dimension & Beyond
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Date November 9, 1956 - June 7, 1960
GenreJazz
Play time 01:06:49
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 441 MB
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Tracks list

Tracks

1 Rolands Theme 
2 Slow Groove 
3 Stormy Weather 
4 The Nearness Of You 
5 A La Carte 
6 Easy Living 
7 Triple Threat 
8 The Call 
9 Soul Station 
10 Our Waltz 
11 Our Love Is Here To Stay 
12 Spirit Girl 
13 Jack The Ripper 

Third Dimension & Beyond is a reissue of Roland Kirks first two albums: Triple
Threat recorded for the Bethlehem label in New York on November 9, 1956 and
Introducing Roland Kirk, recorded for Argo in Chicago on June 7, 1960. The
earlier session, which took place when Kirk was a virtually unknown 20-year-old,
contains examples of the three horns in one mouth phenomenon (hence the phrase
Triple Threat) and relatively uncommon instances of Kirk being overdubbed
(particularly effective during Kirks heartfelt rendering of Stormy Weather). On
his debut album Kirk played tenor saxophone, manzello (a straight soprano with
an angled bell), and stritch (a straightened out alto); he was accompanied by
pianist Jimmy Madison, bassist Carl Pruitt, and drummer Henry Hank Duncan (Third
Dimension, incidentally, was the title of an original King reissue of the Triple
Threat album). Kirks 1960 collaboration with trumpeter Ira Sullivan is a logical
prelude to his soulful Prestige session with Brother Jack McDuff and the very
first of his Mercury albums, We Free Kings. The McDuff connection seems
particularly relevant when pianist William Ron Burton plays the Hammond organ on
The Call, a deep extended blues groove of nearly nine-minutes duration. The rest
of the 1960 quintet consisted of bassist Don Garrett and drummer Gerald Sonny
Brown. Note also that this was the first recording session on which Kirk used
his famous siren whistle. All of the material on this compilation predates
Roland Kirks use of the name Rahsaan. He began calling himself by that name
after experiencing a dream in 1969 during which he heard many people saying
Rahsaan repeatedly. This decision to embrace what was given to him in dreams had
an important precedent, for it was in a dream that Rahsaan Roland Kirk first
heard himself playing three saxophones simultaneously.

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