''50th Birthday Celebration Volume 4'' 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 ...

Electric Masada 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 performe ...

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.Tzadik catalogue
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accessed January 6, 2020

Reception

The AllMusic review by Sean Westergaard states "This is a fantastic ensemble, with lots of time spent playing together, and Zorn knows how get the best out of them. Fans of the Masada series will not be disappointed. Excellent."

Track listing

Personnel

* Cyro Baptista – percussion * Joey Baron – drums * Trevor Dunn – bass * Ikue Mori – laptop electronics * Marc Ribot – guitar * Jamie Saft– keyboards * Kenny Wollesen – drums *

– alto saxophone

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:50th Birthday Celebration Volume 04 Albums produced by John Zorn Masada (band) albums John Zorn live albums 2004 live albums Tzadik Records live albums