''50th Birthday Celebration Volume 2'' 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 ...

improvised music Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous ...

by Milford Graves and

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 ...

documenting their performance at Tonic in September 2003 as part of Zorn's month-long 50th Birthday Celebration concert series.Tzadik catalogue
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Reception

The

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site awarded the album 4 stars.Allmusic Album Entry
accessed November 22, 2013. 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."

Track listing

Personnel

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alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in E, smaller than the B tenor ...

* Milford Graves –

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percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

References

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