50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2

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50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2
Live album by
ReleasedMarch 23, 2004 (2004-03-23)
RecordedOctober 8, 2003 (2003-10-08)
GenreDowntown music, avant-garde jazz
Length54:17
LabelTzadik
ProducerJohn Zorn
John Zorn & Milford Graves chronology
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1
(2004)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2
(2004)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 3
(2003)

50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2 is a live album of improvised music by Milford Graves and John Zorn documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.[1]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings[3]

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars.[2] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz called the album "a delightfully old-fashioned free-jazz blowout", and wrote: "Zorn reasserts himself as a player in this context with insouciant ease, and Graves is as magisterial as ever."[3]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by John Zorn, except where noted

No.TitleLength
1."Inserted Space"8:00
2."Looping Journeys"6:54
3."Calling in Proceed"11:15
4."Deep Within"10:46
5."Smooth Interaction"6:47
6."Talk"2:51
7."Synchronicity"7:39

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Tzadik catalogue
  2. ^ a b Allmusic Album Entry accessed November 22, 2013.
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1545. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.