Triple Threat (Roland Kirk album)

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| name = Triple Threat

| type = Album

| artist = Roland Kirk

| cover = Triple Threat (album).jpg

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| released = {{start date|1957|7}}

| recorded = November 9, 1956

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| genre = Jazz

| length = 38:40

| label = King

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| next_title = Introducing Roland Kirk

| next_year = 1960

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| header = Third Dimension Cover

| type = Album

| cover = Third Dimension Kirk.jpg

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{{Album ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{rating|3|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r152110 AllMusic Review]

|rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=4 |page=869}}

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Triple Threat is the debut album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk. It was released through King Records in July 1957.{{cite news |title=July Album Releases|editor-last=Parnes|editor-first=Sid|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220512140340/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/50s/1957/CB-1957-07-20-OCR-Page-0052.pdf|archive-date=May 12, 2022|url-status=live|page=52|location=New York|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Cash-Box-IDX/50s/1957/CB-1957-07-20-OCR-Page-0052.pdf|work=The Cash Box|publisher=The Cash Box Publishing Co.|date=July 20, 1957}} It features performances by Kirk with James Madison, Carl Pruitt and Henry Duncan. The album features the first recorded examples 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 overdubbed manzello and tenor saxophone. Kirk would later state that the album "was about the third overdub record in black classical music". It was later re-released on the Bethlehem label as Third Dimension and on the Affinity label as Early Roots.[http://www.jazzdiscography.com/Artists/Kirk/3threat.htm Rahsaan Roland Kirk discography] accessed 6 August 2009 The original release of the record received limited distribution and only became widely known after it was rereleased a few years prior to Kirk's death.Kruth, J. (2000) Bright Moments: The Life and Legacy of Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Welcome Rain pg. 42