50th Birthday Concert

50th Birthday Concert
50th Birthday Concert
Live album by Evan Parker
Released	1994
Recorded	April 10, 1994
Venue	Dingwalls, Camden, England
Genre	Free Jazz
Length	83:20
Label	Leo; CD LR 212/213
Producer	Evan Parker and Leo Feigin
Evan Parker chronology

50th Birthday Concert is a double CD live album by British saxophonist and improviser Evan Parker recorded at Dingwalls in 1993 and released on the English Leo label.^[1]^[2]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	+ "Crown"^[4]

AllMusic awarded the album 4½ stars with reviewer Steve Loewy stating:

What a splendid birthday celebration this was! Parker is clearly at the peak of his form, and he is enjoying the interaction with these two splendid groups ... Not to be missed, this is great Evan Parker all the way.
— Loewy, Steve. 50th Birthday Concert – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 4, 2017.

The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album a "Crown" signifying a recording that the authors "feel a special admiration or affection for".^[4]^[5]

Track listing[edit]

Disc One
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hero of Nine Fingers"	Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Paul Lovens	24:31
2.	"Bowed Stiffly and Went Free"	Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Paul Lovens	19:22

Disc Two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"In Exultation"	Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton	20:38
2.	"Not Backwards, as in Doubt"	Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton	9:25
3.	"The Echoing Border Zones"	Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton	9:24

Personnel[edit]

Evan Parker – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Alexander von Schlippenbach - piano (Disc One)
Barry Guy - bass (Disc Two)
Paul Lovens (Disc One), Paul Lytton (Disc Two) - percussion

References[edit]

^ Evan Parker discography, accessed January 4, 2017
^ Leo Records discography, accessed January 4, 2017
^ Loewy, Steve. 50th Birthday Concert – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 4, 2017.
^ ^a ^b Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Evan Parker". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1122. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
^ Penguin Guide to Jazz: Crown Albums List, accessed January 4, 2017

[Evan_Parker_discography-1] Evan Parker discography, accessed January 4, 2017

[2] Leo Records discography, accessed January 4, 2017

[Allmusic-3] Loewy, Steve. 50th Birthday Concert – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved January 4, 2017.

[Penguin_Guide-4] Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Evan Parker". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 1122. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[5] Penguin Guide to Jazz: Crown Albums List, accessed January 4, 2017

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Solo albums	Fizzles (1991) Symmetries (2001) Five Fizzles for Samuel Beckett (2009) Irvin's Comet (2019)
with Howard Riley	Angle (1968 & 1969) The Day Will Come (1970)
with Tony Oxley	Ichnos (1969 & 1970) February Papers (1977) Unreleased 1974–2016 ( 1974, 1981, & 2016)
with Paul Rutherford	Iskra 1903 (1970 & 1972) Sequences 72 & 73 (1972, 1973, & 1974)
with London Jazz Composers' Orchestra	Ode (1972) Zurich Concerts (1987 & 1988) Harmos (1989) Double Trouble (1989) Theoria (1991) Double Trouble Two (1995) Radio Rondo/Schaffhausen Concert (2008)
with the Barry Guy New Orchestra	Inscape–Tableaux (2000) Oort–Entropy (2004)
with Evan Parker	Atlanta (1986) 50th Birthday Concert (1994) Bush Fire (1995) The Redwood Session (1995) Natives and Aliens (1996) Toward the Margins (1996) At the Vortex (1996) Drawn Inward (1998) After Appleby (1999) Memory/Vision (2002) Birds and Blades (2002) Boustrophedon (2004) The Moment's Energy (2007) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011) Music for David Mossman (2016)
with Mats Gustafsson	You Forget to Answer (1994 & 1995) Gryffgryffgryffs (1996)
with Marilyn Crispell	Cascades (1993) Odyssey (1990) Ithaca (2003) Phases of the Night (2007) Deep Memory (2015)
with Cecil Taylor	Nailed (1990) Melancholy (1990)
with Bill Dixon	Vade Mecum (1993) Vade Mecum II (1993)
with Roscoe Mitchell	Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3 (2004)
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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	The Music Improvisation Company 1968–1971 (1969 & 1970) The Topography of the Lungs (1970) The Music Improvisation Company (1970) Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones) (1972) Monoceros (1978) The Snake Decides (1986) The Redwood Session (1995) Tempranillo (1995) Chicago Solo (1995) Toward the Margins (1996) Natives and Aliens (1996) Drawn Inward (1998) Chicago Tenor Duets (1998) Foxes Fox (1999) Birds and Blades (2002) Naan Tso (2004) Rex, Wrecks & XXX (2011) Either Or And (2013)
Live albums	At the Unity Theatre (1975) Saxophone Solos (1975) The Ayes Have It (1983 & 1991) Atlanta (1986) Three Blokes (1992) 50th Birthday Concert (1994) McPhee/Parker/Lazro (1995) At the Vortex (1996) Unity Variations (1998) After Appleby (1999) Memory/Vision (2002) The Bishop's Move (2003) The Eleventh Hour (2004) Boustrophedon (2004) The Moment's Energy (2007) Dortmund Variations (2010) Live at Maya Recordings Festival (2011) Rocket Science (2012) What/If/They Both Could Fly (2012) Music for David Mossman (2016)
Related articles	Spontaneous Music Ensemble