John Lindberg Quintet

Dimension 5 is a live concert by the quintet of bassist John Lindberg, taped in New York in February 1981 and released by Black Saint the following year. A founder of the String Trio Of New York, Lindberg brought in his trio partner Billy Bang on violin and set him in a front line with trumpet and reeds, over bass and drums. Every piece is Lindberg's, and one of them, T'wixt C And D, had opened the trio's Area Code 212, recorded in Milan three months earlier.

The concert took place at Cami Hall in New York City on Friday, February 27, 1981, and was recorded by Kazunori Sugiyama; Lindberg produced, with Giovanni Bonandrini as executive producer, and the liner notes are by Lindberg and Maurice Cullaz. The band is Hugh Ragin on trumpet and piccolo trumpet, Marty Ehrlich on alto saxophone and flute, Bang on violin, Thurman Barker on drums and Lindberg on bass. Eleven Thrice opens the set at nearly sixteen minutes. T'wixt C And D is heard in two parts, about four and a half and eight minutes, a string trio theme opened up for a larger band. The title piece, Dimension 5, closes the concert at fourteen and a half minutes.

This is the Black Saint CD 120062-2, which Discogs lists as a 1997 reissue of the album first issued on LP in 1982, with the four tracks of the original.