| 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
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| 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
All tracks are written by John Zorn, except where noted
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 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
References
- ↑ Tzadik catalogue
- 1 2 Allmusic Album Entry accessed November 22, 2013.
- 1 2 Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1545. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
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