''50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1'' is a

live album An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early ...

by the

Masada String Trio Masada is a musical group with rotating personnel led by American saxophonist and composer John Zorn since the early 1990s. Masada was the first ensemble to perform Zorn's compositions inspired by Radical Jewish Culture and written to be perform ...

documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category". Zorn's avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jaz ...

's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.Tzadik catalogue
/ref>Masada World: 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 1
accessed January 6, 2020

Reception

The

Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...

review by Sean Westergaard awarded the album 4.5 stars stating "From soloing to comping, bowing to pizzicato techniques, the set is dazzling from start to finish. Only "Malkut" and "Karet" are anything but beautiful, sounding like pieces left more open to free improvisation than the others, and allowing other facets of the players' abilities to come out. The Masada songbook has elicited a rather large number of truly excellent recordings from its various ensembles. Add this one to the list. Recommended."Westergaard, S
Allmusic Review
accessed February 16, 2012

Track listing

* *misspelled as "Malkut" on album sleeve
accessed January 6, 2020

Personnel

* Greg Cohen – bass * Mark Feldman – violin * Erik Friedlander – cello *

– conductor

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:50th Birthday Celebration Volume 01 Albums produced by John Zorn Masada String Trio albums John Zorn live albums 2004 live albums Tzadik Records live albums