50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2
Appearance
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2 | ||||
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Live album by | ||||
Released | March 23, 2004 | |||
Recorded | October 8, 2003 | |||
Genre | Downtown music, avant-garde jazz | |||
Length | 54:17 | |||
Label | Tzadik | |||
Producer | John Zorn | |||
John Zorn & Milford Graves chronology | ||||
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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]Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
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. | Title | Length |
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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]- ^ Tzadik catalogue
- ^ a b Allmusic Album Entry accessed November 22, 2013.
- ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1545. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.